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Source For 4X6 8 Ohm Speakers?
This should be a simple one for you guys as many things past and
present use 8 Ohm speakers but the answer has been a bit allusive to me. The Ford Mustangs from the '60s used 4X6 8 Ohm door speakers for their better radio offerings (AM/8 Track and AM/FM). These rare options have become expensive and after sending them out for repair the owners have a sizable chunk of change invested in them. Nobody sells 4X6 8 Ohm car speakers anymore. Everything is 4 Ohms. The series resistor and series speaker have been discussed and why just using a 4 Ohm speaker is a bad idea as well. It seems they don't care if it sounds great (the originals probably didn't) so what's needed is any generic 4X6 8 Ohm speaker that can handle about 15 Watts. I checked Mouser and Newark and they don't have that size. Anyone have a source? Someone else checked the car speaker guys and with no requirements on sound quality I figured one of the electronics suppliers would have a good cheap solution. Thanks |
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wrote in message oups.com... This should be a simple one for you guys as many things past and present use 8 Ohm speakers but the answer has been a bit allusive to me. The Ford Mustangs from the '60s used 4X6 8 Ohm door speakers for their better radio offerings (AM/8 Track and AM/FM). These rare options have become expensive and after sending them out for repair the owners have a sizable chunk of change invested in them. Nobody sells 4X6 8 Ohm car speakers anymore. Everything is 4 Ohms. The series resistor and series speaker have been discussed and why just using a 4 Ohm speaker is a bad idea as well. It seems they don't care if it sounds great (the originals probably didn't) so what's needed is any generic 4X6 8 Ohm speaker that can handle about 15 Watts. I checked Mouser and Newark and they don't have that size. Anyone have a source? Someone else checked the car speaker guys and with no requirements on sound quality I figured one of the electronics suppliers would have a good cheap solution. Thanks Does it have to be 4x6, or could you just make an adapter plate to put a more common size 8 ohm speaker in it's place? |
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On 15 Mar 2005 06:46:17 -0800, "
wrote: This should be a simple one for you guys as many things past and present use 8 Ohm speakers but the answer has been a bit allusive to me. The Ford Mustangs from the '60s used 4X6 8 Ohm door speakers for their better radio offerings (AM/8 Track and AM/FM). These rare options have become expensive and after sending them out for repair the owners have a sizable chunk of change invested in them. Nobody sells 4X6 8 Ohm car speakers anymore. Everything is 4 Ohms. The series resistor and series speaker have been discussed and why just using a 4 Ohm speaker is a bad idea as well. It seems they don't care if it sounds great (the originals probably didn't) so what's needed is any generic 4X6 8 Ohm speaker that can handle about 15 Watts. I checked Mouser and Newark and they don't have that size. Anyone have a source? Someone else checked the car speaker guys and with no requirements on sound quality I figured one of the electronics suppliers would have a good cheap solution. Thanks Try asking around at some of these links: http://www.audioweb.com/Forum/Default.asp http://www.magnepan.com/1-800-474-1646/index.html http://www.speakermania.com/speak/index.html http://www.madisound.com/cgi-bin/discuss.cgi? http://f16.parsimony.net/forum27133/index.htm http://www.pesupport.com/cgi-bin/config.pl http://www.speakerbuilding.com/ http://www.speakerworks.net/ http://www.madisound.com/ http://www.speakercity.com/ http://www.AudioAsylum.com/audio/speakers/bbs.html If you have the original 4x6 baskets it wouldn't be to hard to recone/recoil them, or have a service do it. While some charge a hefty price there are a few services that do it at a reasonably low rate. there is also a device, a variable tranformer that'll let you change the load from 4 to 8. Called an autotransformer I believe. Madisound used to sell them and I believe parts express does as well. www.partsexpress.com another low cost option is to simply adapt a 6inch speaker to the hole. A little 3/8 plywood, some felt and a few bolts. you can even use the original 4x6 grill cover to mask the mod. |
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