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Thread: Newbie Question...Need Sub Help!!! |
    
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 1
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 01:16 am: |
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I'm a 19 year old college student just beginning to take an interest in home theater and audio..I was wondering..I have subwoofers for my car, is there any way those can hook up to a receiver or anything for use indoors? Like I said I'm new so if this is a completely stupid question I'm sorry but all the help I could get would be appreciated!!! |
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Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12824
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 02:42 pm: |
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Of course you can, but you have to consider whether or not your receiver or home amp can handle them. |
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 2
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 03:35 pm: |
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OK, my subs are not too powerful I would say, at least in comparison to other car subs. I think they are about 225 W RMS, but I'm sure this might be too much for my Sony Receiver. I can see right on the front of the receiver it says 100W x 7, do you think this could work? |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12826
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 04:07 pm: |
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Speakers don't have watts.
Anyway, what you need to worry about would be the impedance handling of your receiver. If you are using car subs, they will typically be 4 ohms and cheap home receivers cannot typically handle a 4 ohm load. The usually go, pfft! |
Silver Member Username: Thecrypt
Lawrence,
Kansas
Post Number: 140
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 05:07 pm: |
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Unless you hook the subs up to equal 8 ohms (man you learn so much when you put together audio systems in cars) |
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 3
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 05:34 pm: |
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What would I be looking to spend for a good receiver that could handle those? |
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 4
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 05:36 pm: |
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Or how would I go about making the subs equal 8 ohms? Like I said total newb so sorry for the annoyance!! |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12830
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 05:50 pm: |
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If you are using 2 - 4 ohm subs you'd want to connect them in series.
Or you can check out parts express.com and get a BASH amp. You can get one for less than $200 and I believe it can handle a 4 ohm load. You then build the amp into your sub enclosure. |
Silver Member Username: Stefanom
Vienna,
VA
United States
Post Number: 363
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 06:17 pm: |
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Dare I ask what you have against using a subwoofer made for home use? |
Gold Member Username: Nuck
Post Number: 5784
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 07:22 pm: |
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SM, Jeff is a college student.
Kraft dinner and chicken weiners.
Ahh, the old days.
Notice I ommited 'good'. |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12833
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 07:26 pm: |
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The "good ol' days"...hah!
Times when you are bad, young and usually about nights! |
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 5
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 08:09 pm: |
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Stephen, I have nothing against a subwoofer designed for home use at all. The thing is, like the other guys pointed out, I'm a little short on funds at this point in my life and I already have the car subs. Plus, while I'm at school I don't have my car with me, so I figure why not try and get some use out of those subs? Basically my interests are for music purposes, I love music with some nice bass to it, so I was just trying to see what I could incorporate with what I already have. |
Silver Member Username: Stefanom
Vienna,
VA
United States
Post Number: 364
Registered: Apr-06
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 08:19 pm: |
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My opinion would be to sell the car subs and obtain something for home use. I'm not saying to spend thousands of dollars or anything, but I'd imagine that something on the order of a Dayton sub or two would do the job quite nicely for a very reasonable price. Not to mention the job of calculating a good enclosure size, port measurements, etc are done for you. |
Gold Member Username: Nuck
Post Number: 5789
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 09:01 pm: |
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Jeff, thats good advise. |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12840
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 09:21 pm: |
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What brand subs are they? |
New member Username: Jserlan
Peoria,
Illinois
United States
Post Number: 6
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 09:22 pm: |
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I have 2-12 inch MTX Thunder 4500's |
Platinum Member Username: Project6
Post Number: 12841
Registered: Dec-03
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 09:50 pm: |
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Sell them. Use the money to buy a home sub. |
Gold Member Username: Artk
Albany,
Oregon
USA
Post Number: 3940
Registered: Feb-05
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 10:11 pm: |
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Yep. |
Silver Member Username: Davidpa
Portland,
Oregon
US
Post Number: 374
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 10:23 pm: |
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And Yep. |
