Advice required please.

[soundman2]

HI ALL

OK. Yesterday I picked a pair of small bookshelf speakers (woofer & tweeter) and they are only rated at 8 watts RMS maximum input. In my workshop I have a small 19 inch Samsung TV with the most horrid sounding speakers in it and I want to put these on to improve sound quality. Assuming the TV audio amp needs a load of 8 ohms, these speakers are rated at 4 ohms.

When I tested them across the speaker cables, one read 5.3 ohms and the other was 5.5 ohms. Would the TV audio amp run these speakers with no problems?

Over to you. :thmbsp:

 

[savatage1973]

If you are getting a DCR (DC resistance) reading of 5+ ohms at the speaker terminals, the speakers are actually much closer to 8 ohms (generally a DCR of about 6 ohms). A 4 ohm speaker should have a DCR of closer to 3 ohms. Obviously with a TV, I assume that you are not looking for house rocking volumes, so they should work fine.

 

[soundman2]

Thank you very much for the info. That's made things much clearer!