8 ohm amp

[Ludi Mali]

anyone know of any amps that won't die at 8 ohms resistance? I know most car amps only go up to 4 before they'll start to crap out.

[Vanilla Sky]

the higher resistance won't kill them... it's lower resistance that can be bad... you will get lower power, but it won't kill the amp...

why do you need an 8 ohm amp anyway? what are you trying to run?

[Ludi Mali]

well i'm lookin for some used home theater speakers, and people don't always have their stereos setup due to moving or having already sold it, so i wanna just jack the speakers into my car system to test them out.

[Vanilla Sky]

should be perfectly fine...

even though the home speakers are "rated" at 8 ohms, they usually measure different than that... don't worry about it, man

[shepherd79]

take the ohm meter and test the speakers before you install it. if you have two 8ohm speakers, you can make them one 4ohm speaker.

[HostileJava]

It shouldn't matter like Vanilla said, higher Ohms are ok, it's when you start hooking up 2 ohm or ohm loads to amps that are rated at 4 ohm stable that you run into problems. Just remember the lower the resistance the harder your pushing the amp.

[Ludi Mali]

yeah i knew about the lower ohm problem and just assumed there would be a problem with higher ohms too, but i guess i was wrong. Thanks a lot.