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Default using an 8 ohm speaker with a car radio

"jbclem" wrote:
I have a Radio Shack "Minimus-77" 8 ohm speaker/enclosure. I'd like to use
it with a car radio, but don't know how it will work compared to the usual 4
ohm car radio speaker. Would it have to be adapted to match the 4 ohms
requirement, will it work ok but with less volume? Does it depend on the
actual car radio model? Any ideas about this...


The efficiency of that speaker will overshadow ohms effect. It just will
not play loud in a car even if it's driven with a lot of watts and blow the
speaker. If your car is quiet, maybe. It would work better if it had a high
pass on it, with subwoofer.

Greg