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No not really in your case, just 20 gauge stranded wire or something close to that would work for you. You're not sending much power to the speaker, and at a 3 inch run there isn't going to be any loss to speak of. And I'm guessing that you are working with maybe a 3 or 4 inch speaker at most, they generally have pretty small terminals to work with. That said, 20 gauge wire would be OK

Thank you so much! The speakers are 3 inch but will be spaced about 8 feet apart. I think I already have some 20 ga. wire. So I should be good to go. Thanks again.

+Cameron Jones It really depends on the efficiency of the speakers, and the power output of your amp. The great er the efficiency of the speaker the more sound they produce. Something at 91 dB or above is something to shoot for.

@Gregory Grimm At the very basic sense, that is correct. But there are other variables that affect output as well. Speaker efficiency also plays into it as well. Speaker impedance also can change the output power of the source, in general driving a lower impedance speaker setup will cause the amp driving it to produce more wattage. There is a trade off, more power includes more heat for the amplifier as well, to much heat and you can end up with a fried amp. It isn't just one thing that can affect the output, it is that design of the system in total. I can remember when I was 16 years old, had my first car, no clue about anything electronic, I had a 1966 Dodge Van, I though I was cool with my 6 speaker on my AM radio, If I was lucky, I kept everything to 2 ohms, but I'm guessing at this point that it was most likely less than that. I just ran wires and hooked things up any which way since I didn't know any better. Jump a head 50 years, and it would give me nightmares today.

+Wubbzyyy It is just a method to match speaker impedance to a value that your source is looking for the work properly. For automotive applications, say you have a 4 ohm stable amp and only have 2 ohm woofers, you can put them in series to get to that 4 ohm load your amp works best at or is rated at. John

Here is a cheap and easy way to tell positive and negative. You will need a couple of things.First a battery, just one.. 1.) One AA, AAA, C, D or 9 Volt battery. 2) a couple of lengths of speaker wire. To get your answer, we can id the positive and negative terminals on the speaker. Using the battery and the two lengths of speaker wire, tape one piece of wire to the positive side of the battery. Next, tape the other length of wire to the negative side of the battery. Now you have a simple polarity tool to check the speaker for positive and negative. Taking the battery with the two leads, put the positive lead from the battery to one of the terminals on the speaker. Then finally touch the other lead from the battery to the other lead on the speaker. If the speaker move out, or in a positive direction, then the lead from the positive side of the battery is the positive terminal on the speaker. If the speaker moves in, or in a negative direction, then the lead from the negative side of the battery is connected to the positive terminal of the speaker. From this, you can easily see which terminal is positive and which is negative on the speaker. Remember, when you connect the battery to the speaker, if the cone moves out, the lead from the positive side of the battery is the positive terminal on the speaker. If the cone sucks in, then the lead from the negative side of the battery is on the positive terminal of the speaker. Hope this helps, john

If each set of voice coils is 2 ohms, you have 2 positives and 2 negatives, run a wire from the positive on one set of hookups to the negative terminal of the other set of hookups. That will put the two voice coils in series. It will still be able to handle 400 watts RMS

Hi Brad, you can always check a speaker with a multimeter, but you will only get the resistance at DC, Speaker as they go through a frequency range, will change resistance. So a speaker at DC will have a resistance, a speaker measured at 1000 hz. will have a different resistance. SO your measurements will only give you an idea of what you are working with, not an exact.

There are some variables to deal with.. You will need to understand what impedances the stereo in your Tahoe is working with. The best and safest answer is series which will not blow up your stereo. It will add resistance to your system and thus reduce the power output of the source, but it will also not blow out the amplifier, so it is safer. There are many factors that you need to take in account. You can fly by the seat of your pants and just add a pair and see how they sound, but you may or may not shorten the life of your system. That said, you can replace other speakers with lower or higher impedance drivers to balance out the system to where it needs to be in order to keep everything at the proper impedance. It will take some planning to do it right, and you may end up with a series parallel configuration once all it done..

@@electromavin the Original Tahoe just had 4 door Speakers and 2 Tweeter on Dash , a Sub Woofer was added with a Line OutPut Converter .to the OEM Amplifier . but SOUND is Cutting out Over Bumps - i suspect Somthing id Shorting out under the CONSOLE - will take appart when Weather Gets Warmer

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If your Amp supports 4 to 16 ohms, and you end up with an impedance that is within that 4 to 16 ohm range it should work fine..

+Ranger McCue Ranger, it looks like you have all of the components to do your project, go for it. john

+John Plemons thanks John

Yes, you most likely will need to exchange them for 8 ohm drivers if that is what you need. You can wire the two 4 ohm speakers to achieve 8 ohms, but you can not change a single 4 ohm speaker into 8 ohm speaker. You can add a resistor to it and electrically get 8 ohms, but it isn't a practical solution, depending on the wattage you are driving them with, the resistor can be fairly large.

@@johnnyplemons thanks a bunch

In general 8 ohm speaker were used in home applications. This is a hold over from old style stereo receivers and amps were used. They had Front and Rear speaker outputs. If you hooked up two sets of speakers, both needed to be 8 ohms. The reason, be cause each channel used a single amp to drive the speakers. When both the front and rear buttons were pushed in, it put the front and rear speakers in Parallel, the amp would see 8 ohms over 2, or 4 ohms. Keeping the amp within an accepted power range and margin of safety. If you are using one of today's receivers with multi channel amps, it is just that. Each channel has its own amp to drive that speaker. And it would depend on what the maker of the receiver designed the amp to work with. If the receiver is designed to work with 8 ohm drivers, and you run 4 ohm drivers, then sure, you can over drive the amp and trip the protection. It depends on the amp, and what it will handle.

It changes from car to car, due to the color choice of wire, there isn't a common way of knowing. Try doing a search for your specific vehicle. Or use a multimeter to get your answer.

No, you would need to have four 4 ohm speakers to keep the stereo, doing it that way you would end up with two 8 ohm circuits. One for the Left channel, and one for the right channel.

@@johnnyplemons Thanks John

What do you want to do with them? Increase resistance or reduce resistance? To increase the resistance wire in series, to reduce the resistance wire in parallel. Frequency or Hz. doesn't really play into it. Although it is true that the impedance of a speaker changes with frequency, you wire for a nominal resistance. For example wiring two 8 ohm subs in parallel will give you a 4 ohm circuit, you basically ignore the resistance changes caused by the frequency. Likewise wiring two 4 ohm subs in series will give you a 8 ohm circuit. Speaker resistance is normally taken at 1000 Hz. which is how the impedance rating is determined 8 ohms at 1000 Hz. When measured with a DC ohm meter you will always get an impedance of less than the impedance rating of the speaker, DC is zero Hz. an 8 ohm driver will read somewhere in the 7 ohm range, a 4 ohm driver somewhere in the 3 ohm range.

No you will be fine. There isn't going to be any damage to your speakers. john

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+RADARLOVE MUSIC For a 1/4" Plug or Jack, the Positive is the Tip, and the Negative is the body. It is the same for the Neutrik connector, the body, shield or what ever you choose to call it, is the Negative and the center is the Positive. John

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Sure you can do that. Wiring in series just adds impedance's together. Such as 4 + 8 + 4 will give you a 16 ohm circuit. It really depends on what you are trying to do.

+Muhammad Syafiq That would depend on the impedance that your Amp can handle. Several factors come into play. The impedance of the two 2.1 systems, the impedance the Amp will tolerate, and finally how you wire the two systems together. IF you have a 8 ohm Amp, and the speaker systems are 4 ohm, then wire in Series to get the 8 ohm load your amp is looking for, If the 2.1 systems are 8 ohm wiring in parallel with give you a 4 ohm circuit, it could damage your 8 ohm amplifier. Chances are low that it will happen, but is always something that can happen. Although it could shorten the life of the Amp because it will generate more heat. If you wire the two 8 ohm speaker systems in series, you get a 16 ohm circuit, this will also affect the amp, it will produce less power, and run a bit cooler. Anything you do outside of having the exact impedance that you amp needs will have some affect. John

thanks for your comment sir., what if i use 2.5 jack splitter, what connection it will be? series or parallel?

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+Muhammad Syafiq Is by chance your 2.1 system powered? If it is, then you have nothing to worry about, the amp is built in and you will be fine. john

yes, i'm using system powered but i want to use both speaker system with full performance without having any failure., I've noticed that if i used 2 satellite speaker, the sound produces is more powerful than 4

+kartman74usa If it has (2) outputs then use both of them, you stated you were getting two speakers so why run them in series? I would also suggest looking at getting the rated watts 60 is good but if it's rated at 75w @ 8 ohm then shoot for that. you could double bridge the leads and outputs to create 150w output @ 4 ohm, the bass hits A LOT harder that way.

+kartman74usa Lets get you on the right track. First putting a speaker in series will increase the impedance, not reduce it. Putting two 8 ohm drivers in series will give you a 16 ohm circuit. That will not hurt your head. Putting two 8 ohm woofers in parallel is what you are describing, that would give you a 4 ohm circuit at the input of the amp. That can damage your Mustang V Head. If you have not purchased the two speakers, do one of two things. Buy two 16 ohm drivers and put them in Parallel to reduce the impedance to 8 ohms. Or buy two 4 ohm drivers and put them in Series to get to an impedance of 8 ohms. Beyond that, you can put the two 8 ohm drivers in series and get to 16 ohms, that will not damage your amp in any way. A quick refresher. Series is putting speakers together like this. From the source Positive, to the first driver positive terminal, next from the first driver Negative terminal run a connector or lead to the Positive terminal on Driver number two. Finally from driver two negative terminal goes to the negative of the source or amp. Parallel is from the source a Positive and Negative lead to woofer number one, and also running a positive and negative lead to woofer number two. There are other ways to wire this too, but that is the simplest to explain quickly. Good luck, John

+kartman74usa wannerjonathan is pretty much on point with his suggestion. Looking at the Mustang V specs, it is a mono amp, it has two speaker inputs. My guess is that they put the two connections in parallel when two 8 Ω drivers are plugged in. This would make sure that the amp in the head never sees anything lower than a 4 ohm load. It is called Daisy Chaining and is common for this type of application. Now on speaker wattage, he is correct if you wire both speakers into both outputs, in theory, your speakers will push past the wattage limit of 120 Watts ( 2 X 60 = 120 ) This can shorten the life of the drivers.

+Eileene Castro Are you asking about the jumper wires I'm using? They are simple alligator clip jumpers, they come in a number of lengths from 12" to 36" or longer. john

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@@motazpharaon1397 😂😂😂 it's really funny because now I'm an electronics technician. If you have them in series they are added together

Sure, electrically that would work, but there is a bit more to building a speaker than just throwing a couple of speakers together. But if all you want is a speaker that will handle 30 watts, that would work.

@@johnnyplemons Thank you Sir

Not exactly sure what that could be?? It could be that the driver is being over driven, that is to many watts being sent to the driver.. A driver is designed to handle a specific number of watts, for example 20 watts, if you are sending 40 watts to the driver, it can run hotter, since you are sending twice the power.

You can put 2 of the speakers in series to get 16 ohms. Do this for 4 of the speakers, making 2 sets or series pairs of speakers, the you take the 2 series pair sets, an put them in parallel, this will bring them down to 8 ohms, throw in the last 8 ohm speaker in parallel and you have a circuit that will work with your Amp.

Head phones need to be taken off of a low level output, such as off of the preamp circuit of the source.. They are not designed to be used off of speaker outputs, you can fry them that way.. IF you do use them with the speaker output, I would make sure to add a 500 ohm power resistor inline with the headphone jack.. Something that would handle at least 50 to 75 watts, that should give you a good level of protection for the head phones, and could make them useable at the same time. john

+Josh Clay You will need some type of amplifier to increase the volume to where it is usable.

+Joseph Ilag The right wire? I will assume you mean the gauge of wire to use to hook up to your source. The right wire is more determined by the length of the run you are making. In general the longer the distance you are from the source or Amp, the thicker the wire you need to use. For most home applications, a good 18 gauge wire will work fine. If it is a run over 20 to 25 feet, then move up to a 16 gauge wire and you should be fine. Now it never hurts to go bigger, if you have 16 gauge wire, you can use it on the short runs too. john

+electromavin Whenever I set up sound systems I always use 12awg no more no less. The frequencies and power travel much smoother through the wire and to the outputs (speakers). But if you're not into the movie theater home setup then definitely go with 16 or 18, it will still give you the good high's but will limit the low's so they are not over powering.

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He did. They go from the positive side of one speaker to the negative side of the other speaker. It's one wire.

no he didn't.. if he connects the yellow wires one speaker to other, then nothing will power the speakers..

Monchi F it connnects back to the stereo.... henceforth the entire reason for this video.

Monchi F you should not be wiring up any electrical circuits. You clearly don't have a clue how it works.

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I found this on Auto Zones website.. It shows that the Pink is Positive, and the Blue White is Positive.. repairguide.autozone.com/znetrgs/repair_guide_content/en_us/images/0996b43f/80/24/c5/38/large/0996b43f8024c538.gif Hope it helps john

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Sorry, I don't understand what you are asking for? john

+Irwan Syafais You will need some type of amplifier to increase the volume to where it is usable.

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+Eileene Castro They are called jumpers with alligator clips.

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I have two old subwoofers.. and our project is to make an improvised device and we want to make a speaker.. May I know how ?

+Eileene Castro I guess to answer that, I need more information. What type of speaker are you trying to build? A full range design, a 2 or 3 way design? What are your components? Your application? what is the overall plan, and what are you building it to do or to be used with? john