Can i mix 6 ohm speakers with 8 ohm ones?

Depends. Need more info.

For instance, if your situation is having 8 ohm fronts and a 6 ohm center it
should be no problem as long as your amp is rated to drive a 6 ohm speaker
on the center channel.

But if you have an 8 ohm left and a 6 ohm right then that's not a good thing
because one will get more power than the other and cause an unstable load on
your amp.


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"me" wrote in message
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Can i mix 6 ohm speakers with 8 ohm ones?


Make sure that your receiver supports such an arrangement. Usually,
mixing 4 ohm, 6 ohm and 8 ohm speakers is a normal arrangement. Often, a
speaker that is rated as 8 ohms will drop to 6 ohms at certain frequency
ranges.

However, putting 16 ohm speakers into the mix can cause problems with
Yamaha amps and receivers. For example, the back of the Yamaha RX-V596
AV receiver has a switch which has the following specifications:

SET BEFORE POWER ON

Setting A:

Main or B: 4 ohm min./speaker

A + B: 8 ohm min./speaker

Rear: 6 ohm min./speaker

Center: 6 ohm min./speaker

Setting B:

Main or B: 8 ohm min./speaker

A + B: 16 ohm min./speaker

Rear: 8 ohm min./speaker

Center: 8 ohm min./speaker

If you mean put them in parallel, the result will be about 3.4 Ohms. That's
lower than most consumer amps like.

If you mean to use 6-Ohm fronts and 8-Ohm rears or some such combination,
that's not a problem in and of itself.

Regards,
Robert

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Yes im using 6 ohm fronts and the rest 8 ohms , thx for the replies.
"Robert L. Bass" wrote in message
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If you mean put them in parallel, the result will be about 3.4 Ohms.
That's
lower than most consumer amps like.

If you mean to use 6-Ohm fronts and 8-Ohm rears or some such combination,
that's not a problem in and of itself.

Regards,
Robert

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Some amps have a problem if the impedance it sees is too low. Thermal issues
are involved. But the impedance an amp sees from a speaker is quite complex
and it has nothing to do with how loud a speaker sounds. That is a very
different characteristic. Mixing 6 and 8 ohm speakers is a non issue from a
thermal perspective so long as you don't put them in parallel.

Richard.

Some amps have a problem if the impedance it sees is too low.

all amps have a problem with impedance that's too low

Yes im using 6 ohm fronts and the rest 8 ohms , thx for the replies.

OK, no problem.

Regards,
Robert

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"B. Earp" wrote in message
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Some amps have a problem if the impedance it sees is too low.

all amps have a problem with impedance that's too low

Yes. That's why it's called "too low"

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"B. Earp" wrote in message
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Some amps have a problem if the impedance it sees is too low.

all amps have a problem with impedance that's too low

Yes. That's why it's called "too low"

Put it this way: Amps driving a load (a speaker) see both a resistive load
and the complex impedance of the speaker. If the resistive load and
impedance is too low at a given frequency and the amp is ask to provide high
current to drive the speaker at that frequency it, the amp, may experience
thermal damage.

Richard.