I was looking for solutions on my 01 Caddy speaker which are one ohm. I came up with the idea of using resistors to make up for the difference so I did some research and sure enough that will work. You guys would need the correct wattage 4 ohm resistor to make a 4 ohm speaker 2 ohm if you wired it in parallel and make the factory amp happy.

 

True that! As long as it would work (don't see why not) sounds like a great find Biff!

 

mathematically, and theoretically speaking, it would work, however i havnt tried it

 

Screw the resistor, Just add another 4ohm speaker

 

That works too if you can find room for it.

 

I need all new speakers.
I am going to need to read up again about them and what I should get.
I remember it's not an easy fix and I don't want to buy the wrong thing and have them rig it wrong. But I would LOVE to hear a great system in my truck... again

 

You can find it in here: https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...wers-faqs.html

 

So i did some reading on this very subject yesterday and that leads me to this question... if you wire a resister in parallel with a speaker on the same channel on an amp wouldn't the resister get 1/2 of the power? Sounds like a waste to me.

Edit: Which means that you shouldn't get any more sound out of the 4 ohm speaker... and the amp should be able to drive the 4 ohm speaker just fine by itself... but I am just guessing like everyone else, never tried it, will have to some day though, my front drivers side speaker is not working (mid or tweet.)

 

http://www.crutchfield.com/s_1081209...s%7cFFFree_Air


This sub is what got me thinking about it. I could not imagine what other way to have a selectable Ohm load via a switch except a resistor.