I have 2 JL audio 10'' woofers and 2 Rockford Fosgate 10" sub woofers that I am not using. I am wondering if I can use them for a home audio? I also have a 600 watt amplifier that I can use to power them or can I just plug them into the audio device and use them?
2007-04-08 13:20:14 · 7 answers · asked by [ V ] 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
I am powering the Subs off of a regular 5-cd changer radio, I have that wired into the VCR to play audio from the TV, so I'm not really worried about it if it does fry.
2007-04-09 07:17:18 · update #1
Sure, you can. However, your home amp must be able to handle the typically low impedance levels from car subwoofers. Make sure of this before you hook them up to your home amp, or you may cause damage to the home amp and possibly your subwoofers as well.
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2007-04-08 14:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
You can use the woofer drivers IF you build an appropriate box for home use. The existing car amplifiers that came with the package (if I understand you correctly) will have to be left out. There is no way that I know of to adapt them to the home stereo. The existing car boxes are probably not good for home use either. What you need to do instead is build a box or boxes appropriate for home use. Then, buy an actual home subwoofer amplifier for the purpose. You can get them from Parts Express at www.partsexpress.com. They refer to them as plate amps. It usually mounts to the back of the box.
It sounds like what you are trying to do is pretty much what I did. I have an old JL audio 15 inch subwoofer that I built a "home style" box for. Then I got a 200 watt home subwoofer amp from partsexpress.com. It works very well. I hope that I was helpful. Good luck.
2007-04-08 13:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by davj61 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can but it will probably sound like crap in a large room. Car speakers are designed to sound good in a small space.
Also, home audio equipment requires 8 Ohm resistance at the speaker so you are going to need to wire those two 4 Ohm car speakers in series for it to work. The home audio system is also not going to have enough power to really drive those car subs either. Which means you will need to get a 12V source for your Amp.
All in all, not a very efficient plan or one that is going to provide you with much in the way of quality sound.
2007-04-08 13:30:26 · answer #3 · answered by troythom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes you can do it, But your car system puts out 4 ohms and your house is set up for 8 ohms.I would suggest that you put the whole speaker in your car and run the amp with the cross over switch set in the middle verse lp or hp, so the crossover in the house speaker does the hp and lp and you get proper sound and don't damage the speaker.
2016-04-01 04:16:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or you could just go buy a subwoofer made for a home theater. It will sound better and you won't fry your receiver.
2007-04-08 16:05:52 · answer #5 · answered by Brian O 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah if you want bad sound and to ruin your reciever. just buy a powered sub. alot of people think that there car stereo's are the same as home stereo's. their not even in the same league home audio blows car audio away in terms of quality.
2007-04-09 07:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by dddd 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
you should not, unless you rec can run 4 ohms, then it is fine
do not set it up in speakers in the smae channel, that will lower the ohm even more
2007-04-09 05:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by bkbarile 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋