Car Speakers?

[NFSracer]

I got a question about car subs, tweeters,etc... Can they be used in your home stereo?

Meh. Short question, short answer....

[Wazza]

Try this page..
May help somewhat.. I don't know anything about converting things across, I just have specific stereo types, for their correct jobs.

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/1/2783.html

Do you have a car amp?

I have a 800W Lanzar AMP, 60Wx4 MP3/CDR Headdeck, and just a couple of 6.5 inch mid-woofers... I got these for my birthday 7 weeks ago, and have yet to install them. =[

[ndmrpwr]

As I know it most home systems are 8 ohm setups. Most car systems are of the 4 ohm variety so unless your home amp will handle a 4 ohm load I wouldn't recomend it. If you need more help either reply here or PM me. I installed car audio for about 22 years so I might be able to help you out. :)

[NFSracer]

I wasn't gonna do anything yet, i was just curious. Car stereo is alot easier to find around here. We got alot of car audio stores in my area, and i see parts going pretty cheap and name brands to. I don't have a car yet, still only 15. Couple years i'm sure i'll have some questions for you about installing car audio. :D

[Wazza]

Heh, with the stereo unit I got, all I had asked for was a headdeck.. But receiving mid-woofers with tweeters, frequency splitter, and amp was a real shock. I have to go down during the day, and the place where my uncle works, will install it for a fee. But I never have time during the week to do it.. Costs $50 just to get the cabling, and I would much rather someone else put it in, than myself cutting wires etc.

[Commander]

To an extent, YES, you can use car speakers on your home system, so long as (like ndmrpwr states) you don't exceed the impedence. On the back of your car speakers, you should see a rating for ohms (an Omega symbol) . Most are 4 ohms, while some are 2, and like mine, some are 8 ohms. It gets a bit wierd though when hooking up more than one speaker to one source/amp. While the exact math escapes me, I remember that with my guitar amp, which has a switch to toggle between 4, 8 and 16 ohms, it depends on how many speakers are hooked up. Like I say, the exact math of it all eludes me, but I do know that if I run 4 speakers (4 x 16 ohm speakers) I can have the amp's switch on "16 ohms", but if I run 8 speakers, then I have to go to 8 ohms on the amp, and ultimately, if I run 12 speakers, then I have to go to 4 ohms on the amp. I am sorry I cannot help you any more without checking into the nature of the electronics/physics, but at least in your research you can remember what I have to do with my amp, and perhaps apply a similar practice.

Typically, however, your home stereo with have a left channel and a right channel, therefore requiring two speakers. Chances are your stereo puts out 8 ohms, and so as long as those two speakers are rated at 8 ohms, or higher, you will be ok.


P.S. Anyone with inside info about the guitar amp thing, could you please fill me in on that? I have been wondering why one needs to switch impedence on the amp according to how many 4 x 12 cabinets are hooked up in parallel. :why:

EDIT: Oooh ooh, here is a decent forum thread concerning the whole idea. Check this out!

http://www.sound-on-sound2.infopop.net/2/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=215094572&f=7313001337&m=1153046167&r=5613013267