Home receiver loads

can you hook up 4 ohm speakers on a home system? I know that most require 8-ohm, but i have a pair of speakers (actual home stero speakers) that are rated @ 6 ohms. To me this seems like i can hook anything up to, but common sense tells me not to hook up a 1, or 2 ohm load of course. But what I am asking is will a 4 ohm load on my home reciever "burn it up" or take away from its life??

yeah, home audio equipment is really delcate, for instance, if you feed to much watts to your speakers then you will totally blow the woofers, to little, theri goes the tweeters, home audio is really picky, even if you split an rca your home audio is going to cry abaut it. I suggest you don't mess with it, home audio is pricey and breakable.

yeah, home audio equipment is really delcate, for instance, if you feed to much watts to your speakers then you will totally blow the woofers, to little, theri goes the tweeters, home audio is really picky, even if you split an rca your home audio is going to cry abaut it. I suggest you don't mess with it, home audio is pricey and breakable.


ehh....what?

Your receiver would handle 6ohm speakers without a problem most likely, 4ohm is kind of pushing it. If you do it, make sure you leave the volume pretty low. I wouldn't go over about half volume, past that and you get more current flowing through the unit than it was designed to handle.

in other words, the amp would clip, possibly overheat, and distort speakers beyond repair? The reasons behind this thread are, occasionally a friend will want to come over and test out and hear his woofers, so we plug em in my stero and hear them, i have a equalizer so i adjust accordinly to the speaker, makeing sure i cut out high frequences. But I was wondering if i tried that hooking up some 4 ohm speakers occasionally.

No the amp wouldn't clip unless you cranked it up into clipping

The only difference is that at any given volume setting, you'll get more current flowing out of the receiver than you would with an 8ohm speaker. This means that at some point, about half volume, you'll have the max amount of current flowing through the amp that it was designed to handle. Past this point you could start running into problems with heat, especially if you listen for a long time.