stizzswizz
New Member
Hello,
I have a member of my family who purchased a large sail boat and asked me if help fix their stereo on it. Currently they have a 4-channel car stereo connected to a Radio Shack speaker selector to control 12 speakers over several rooms.
They want to get rid of the speaker selector and just have seperate volume controls for each set of speakers for each room. So I understand that a car head unit can not power 12, 4Ohm speakers due to a couple reasons, the main one is probably power output from the head unit. So, if I use say a 250W(RMS) x 2channel at 4Ohm amplifier, can I arrange the speakers in a parallel/series configuration and still have quality sound? I also would like the ability to decrease the volume for one room, without affecting the volume of another room.
Is there any way to "trick" an amplifier to seeing a constant 4Ohm load?
I showed them a multi-channel home theater amplifier that would work perfectly but they didnt want to dish out $700.
I guess Im looking for a semi-simple passive circuit idea...
Thanks,
Steve
I have a member of my family who purchased a large sail boat and asked me if help fix their stereo on it. Currently they have a 4-channel car stereo connected to a Radio Shack speaker selector to control 12 speakers over several rooms.
They want to get rid of the speaker selector and just have seperate volume controls for each set of speakers for each room. So I understand that a car head unit can not power 12, 4Ohm speakers due to a couple reasons, the main one is probably power output from the head unit. So, if I use say a 250W(RMS) x 2channel at 4Ohm amplifier, can I arrange the speakers in a parallel/series configuration and still have quality sound? I also would like the ability to decrease the volume for one room, without affecting the volume of another room.
Is there any way to "trick" an amplifier to seeing a constant 4Ohm load?
I showed them a multi-channel home theater amplifier that would work perfectly but they didnt want to dish out $700.
I guess Im looking for a semi-simple passive circuit idea...
Thanks,
Steve