Adding a tweeter to a center channel

Posted by F. Schmidtke [IP: 162.42.205.72] on October 27, 1998 at 12:44:25:

I have a Yamaha center channel with two 4" full range drivers and would like to add a tweeter to it. The 4" drivers are 12 ohm each and are wired in parallel which makes the pair appear as a 6 ohm load.

My plan is to use a Polk trilaminate tweeter which is suppose to be 4 ohm, but measures 5.5 ohms with my meter. If I hook it up in parallel to the existing drivers the total impedance drops to 2.9 ohms. I have been told that tweeters do not draw that much, and that I should not be concerned about impedance load on the amplifier in my receiver. Or, should I just connect the tweeter and get some resistors to increase the impedance for the entire setup. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

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• Adding a tweeter to a center channel SMR [WizOp] 19:39:37 10/27/98 (1)
  • Adding a tweeter to a center channel Alan Ersen 03:44:24 11/10/98 (0)

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