Ok FINALLY!! Seen a bunch of videos and none of them showed what they did at the jack being the parallel end of the equation! One guy had shaky blurry video, don't know why he bothered or how proud he could have been?? Great clean articulate video and now I have the confidence! Thanks!! Peace 🕊️☮️
Thank you so much. I've been working on a speaker project that has 4×4 2ohm speakers and I wanted to use a 2.5 ohm amplifier so this video was helpful. Ones again thanks👍🏾
If I were to build two speaker boxes containing two 18 inch 8 ohm subwoofers each and wired them both in series. Both boxes would play at 16 ohms. If I were to then daisy chain them together at the speakon connectors would they then both revert to 8 ohm impedence or both play at 16 ohms?
@purgasound I mean with cable from the amplifier to the input of one box and from the output of that box to the input of the other via the speakon connectors outside the boxes. That would mean they would both be playing at 8 ohms if they were both wired in series at 16 ohms...yes?
@2;12 I hate to be "That guy" but best to heat the wire and terminal versus using soldering iron to "pool up" solder Coming from an Avionics tech....the connection will be much better, and last longer. Otherwise spot on, your way is the cleanest I've seen, sent this to a friend who asked best way to do this, video is always best...better than explaining to him.
Wish I had this video a few weeks ago when my 1960 with T75's started acting up haha. Turns out the solder joints on one of the jacks on the stereo switching PCB broke loose somehow so I just replaced it all with just one normal jack and blocked off the holes similar to how you did. Also where do you get metal handles for your Marshall cabs? I'm looking to replace my plastic ones since they're getting pretty broken up. Thanks for another awesome video!
I've been thinking about a 2x10 cab. As light as possible, and able to do 4 or 16 ohms. If you had any suggestions, it's for a '64 Bandmaster (4 ohm), or a Traynor Darkhorse (16 ohm).
so im wiring a 4x8 with a tweeter, the tweeter is 5.6 ohm and theres a crossover, the speakers were originally 32 ohm ( 8ohm cab) and i want it to be 4 ohm, so i got four 4 ohm woofers and i want to wire it like this. Will i be fine to add in the tweeter and itll still be 4 ohm?
I think screwed myself. i used to have 4x12 cabs with 16 ohms speakers wired/running 16ohm setting, the 4x12 got to dam heavy so i now have 2- 2x12 cabs but one set of speakers is 8 ohms(celestion gold's) & the other 2,i just bought 16ohms ( the newest celestion 100 anniversary speakers) i thought i could bring the 8s up to 16 which i can, then i thought i could wire the 16ohms to 16ohms but everything im seeing is saying no deal . if you read this will just confirm for me, if there's any suggestions im willing to listen Thanks, Peace!!
I'm not understanding your desired setup from the description. The two 8 ohm speakers can be wired in parallel for 4 ohms or in series for 16 ohms. The two 16 ohm speakers should only be wired in parallel for an 8 ohm load. Are you wanting to use both of them at the same time with the same amplifier? Some amplifiers can handle a slight mismatch but the downside in this case is the speakers won't draw equal current due to the impedance being different despite the amp seeing the overall load. Feel free to write me at brent@purgasound.com and I would be happy to share some more insight. Thanks for checking out the channel!
@@purgasound I have a Marshall head with 2 speakers jacks, my ohms selections on the head are 8 & 16 ohms, i have 2, 2 x 12 cabinets, the speakers i currently have are 2 @ 8ohms rated & 2 @ 16ohms rated (while standing alone not wired up). i thought i was able to hook the 2, 16 ohm speakers in one of the cabs and get a total of 16ohms after wired together but im coming to find out my only choices for finial ohms once wiring them together will be either 4 ohm or 32 ohms, my goal was to wire both cabinets having 16 ohm totals on both, but im coming to find out i made a mistake since there no way to wire the 16 ohm speaker together to get a total of 16 ohms, see i was thinking since it could be done that way with a 4x12 i figured one could do the same with a 2x12, right now the only solution i see is wire the 2 16ohm speakers for a total of 8ohms & in the second cab just run one of the 8 ohm speakers since i can't match the cabinets in terms of ohms . i hope you follow what im saying this time around. that said, is there a solution im not looking at? short of me buying 2 more new speakers which i can't do right now since the pair where $850 shipped. to costly to do right now..
@@purgasound wait a second i just reread this & i completely overlooked you saying the 8 ohm speakers can be wired together to achieve 8ohm load. is this right? i thought it was either 4 ohm or 16 ohm using the 8 ohm speakers> same with the 16 ohm either 4 ohm or 32ohm. do i have it wrong?
Unfortunately that can't be done. The two 8 ohm speakers would either be 4 ohms in parallel or 16 ohms in series. You could run a mismatch into a 16 ohm load but I never recommend it if it can be avoided. When mismatching never run the amp at full volume.
Nice video, dude. I have a question: So the two speakers connected in series would have an impedance of 32 ohms and since both sides are connected in parallel, the total impedance is 16 ohms? Do I understand this correctly? I'm asking because I have a Peavey 6505 4x12 speaker and in mono (so all four speakers) it has 16 ohms and in stereo (so only 2 speakers) it only has 8 ohms and not 32 and as far as I know it has the same wiring. Or have I not understood something correctly?
You are correct in your first statement. The difference in the Peavey cabinet is that it is wired in PARALLEL/SERIES which, when used in stereo, has a pair of 16 ohm speakers in parallel for an 8 ohm load. When used in MONO the two 8 ohm pairs are connected in series for a 16 ohm total load.
On the road the cabs are being shaken up for thousands of miles in the back of a semi-truck, trailer, or van. Those connectors can come loose and I don't trust them. Although I opened one of Sacred Reich's cabs that had been touring since the late 80's and those quick connects were still solid.
Thanks so much. Just wired up my first 4x12 with your video playing on my phone - came out perfect. Thanks again!
Ok FINALLY!! Seen a bunch of videos and none of them showed what they did at the jack being the parallel end of the equation! One guy had shaky blurry video, don't know why he bothered or how proud he could have been?? Great clean articulate video and now I have the confidence! Thanks!! Peace 🕊️☮️
This is the best and most efficient video I have seen about how to do this. Thanks a lot for posting.
It was such a calm relaxing Mr Robinson(esqu) video until 3:37
Still calm compared to me.
I want to go buy speaker wire just to twist it with the drill. It's mesmerizing.
It’s actually very helpful to see the process with the twisted pairs. Nice and tidy. Thanks for posting this.
This is exactly the video I wanted to see because I've seen you do this in other videos but I'm really bad at this stuff. Thanks a lot !
Thank you so much. I've been working on a speaker project that has 4×4 2ohm speakers and I wanted to use a 2.5 ohm amplifier so this video was helpful. Ones again thanks👍🏾
Glad to see you back. Your killing it!!
what about stereo? Channel Separation features and fade in fade out like in Pink Floys for example!??
Easy peasy. I've got four 15's in a big DIY box.
4x15's are killer!
@@purgasound There's a picture of one in my song "Passion Of Essence" here on TH-cam. I've got 2 boxes like that.
love vids showing cabs, more please lol
Came for the bandana stay for the good sh@!, thanks!
If I were to build two speaker boxes containing two 18 inch 8 ohm subwoofers each and wired them both in series. Both boxes would play at 16 ohms. If I were to then daisy chain them together at the speakon connectors would they then both revert to 8 ohm impedence or both play at 16 ohms?
If two 16 ohm loads are daisy chained together (connected in parallel) then the final load would be 8 ohms, yes.
@purgasound I mean with cable from the amplifier to the input of one box and from the output of that box to the input of the other via the speakon connectors outside the boxes. That would mean they would both be playing at 8 ohms if they were both wired in series at 16 ohms...yes?
@2;12 I hate to be "That guy" but best to heat the wire and terminal versus using soldering iron to "pool up" solder
Coming from an Avionics tech....the connection will be much better, and last longer.
Otherwise spot on, your way is the cleanest I've seen, sent this to a friend who asked best way to do this,
video is always best...better than explaining to him.
And cover any speakers that are in the drop zone. I burned a speaker cone. Once, lol.
You're rad. Thanks.
Wish I had this video a few weeks ago when my 1960 with T75's started acting up haha. Turns out the solder joints on one of the jacks on the stereo switching PCB broke loose somehow so I just replaced it all with just one normal jack and blocked off the holes similar to how you did. Also where do you get metal handles for your Marshall cabs? I'm looking to replace my plastic ones since they're getting pretty broken up. Thanks for another awesome video!
Nice shirt! From the Shredder in Boise?
That's the one
Does it matter when you’ve got a M&H speaker mix in Xpattern?
I've been thinking about a 2x10 cab. As light as possible, and able to do 4 or 16 ohms. If you had any suggestions, it's for a '64 Bandmaster (4 ohm), or a Traynor Darkhorse (16 ohm).
so im wiring a 4x8 with a tweeter, the tweeter is 5.6 ohm and theres a crossover, the speakers were originally 32 ohm ( 8ohm cab) and i want it to be 4 ohm, so i got four 4 ohm woofers and i want to wire it like this. Will i be fine to add in the tweeter and itll still be 4 ohm?
Yes, if you cut all the frequencies below your tweeter Out of the woofers.
Would you still wire it this way if there was a divider between the top and bottom speakers?
I think screwed myself. i used to have 4x12 cabs with 16 ohms speakers wired/running 16ohm setting, the 4x12 got to dam heavy so i now have 2- 2x12 cabs but one set of speakers is 8 ohms(celestion gold's) & the other 2,i just bought 16ohms ( the newest celestion 100 anniversary speakers) i thought i could bring the 8s up to 16 which i can, then i thought i could wire the 16ohms to 16ohms but everything im seeing is saying no deal . if you read this will just confirm for me, if there's any suggestions im willing to listen Thanks, Peace!!
I'm not understanding your desired setup from the description. The two 8 ohm speakers can be wired in parallel for 4 ohms or in series for 16 ohms. The two 16 ohm speakers should only be wired in parallel for an 8 ohm load. Are you wanting to use both of them at the same time with the same amplifier? Some amplifiers can handle a slight mismatch but the downside in this case is the speakers won't draw equal current due to the impedance being different despite the amp seeing the overall load. Feel free to write me at brent@purgasound.com and I would be happy to share some more insight. Thanks for checking out the channel!
@@purgasound I have a Marshall head with 2 speakers jacks, my ohms selections on the head are 8 & 16 ohms, i have 2, 2 x 12 cabinets, the speakers i currently have are 2 @ 8ohms rated & 2 @ 16ohms rated (while standing alone not wired up). i thought i was able to hook the 2, 16 ohm speakers in one of the cabs and get a total of 16ohms after wired together but im coming to find out my only choices for finial ohms once wiring them together will be either 4 ohm or 32 ohms, my goal was to wire both cabinets having 16 ohm totals on both, but im coming to find out i made a mistake since there no way to wire the 16 ohm speaker together to get a total of 16 ohms, see i was thinking since it could be done that way with a 4x12 i figured one could do the same with a 2x12, right now the only solution i see is wire the 2 16ohm speakers for a total of 8ohms & in the second cab just run one of the 8 ohm speakers since i can't match the cabinets in terms of ohms . i hope you follow what im saying this time around. that said, is there a solution im not looking at? short of me buying 2 more new speakers which i can't do right now since the pair where $850 shipped. to costly to do right now..
@@purgasound wait a second i just reread this & i completely overlooked you saying the 8 ohm speakers can be wired together to achieve 8ohm load. is this right? i thought it was either 4 ohm or 16 ohm using the 8 ohm speakers> same with the 16 ohm either 4 ohm or 32ohm. do i have it wrong?
@@gatormcklusky5850 I'm sorry that was a mistake. The two 8 ohm speakers can only be wired together for 4 or 16 ohms
So if i have 4 d4 12s and qire them jut like you just did those. Will that make it 1ohm at the amp???
EXCELLENT VIDEO I SUBSCRIBED! GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL.
Hey its Jim Morrison reincarnated. Good tutorial, thanks for the info.
how do I wire (2) 8 ohm speakers in a cabinet to connect to an amp head with 8 ohm output?
Unfortunately that can't be done. The two 8 ohm speakers would either be 4 ohms in parallel or 16 ohms in series. You could run a mismatch into a 16 ohm load but I never recommend it if it can be avoided. When mismatching never run the amp at full volume.
What if you have 2 8ohm, and 2 4ohm speakers & want to wire up this way. What's the end homage on that????
I hate to brake it to you but the speakers have to all be the same impedance
Say id want to switch a speaker out , with a v30 16ohm, would that work?
Nice video, dude. I have a question: So the two speakers connected in series would have an impedance of 32 ohms and since both sides are connected in parallel, the total impedance is 16 ohms? Do I understand this correctly? I'm asking because I have a Peavey 6505 4x12 speaker and in mono (so all four speakers) it has 16 ohms and in stereo (so only 2 speakers) it only has 8 ohms and not 32 and as far as I know it has the same wiring. Or have I not understood something correctly?
You are correct in your first statement. The difference in the Peavey cabinet is that it is wired in PARALLEL/SERIES which, when used in stereo, has a pair of 16 ohm speakers in parallel for an 8 ohm load. When used in MONO the two 8 ohm pairs are connected in series for a 16 ohm total load.
@@purgasound big thanks for the answer, that makes sense. 👍
Is there any particular reason why you don't like using quick connectors?
On the road the cabs are being shaken up for thousands of miles in the back of a semi-truck, trailer, or van. Those connectors can come loose and I don't trust them. Although I opened one of Sacred Reich's cabs that had been touring since the late 80's and those quick connects were still solid.
nice work
Where can I get one of those shirts, I love it!!! Al Bundy is my hero 👍🏻 Lol
What do you end up with wattage wise?
The handling power of any speaker cabinet will be the number of speakers multiplied by the rating of the lowest wattage speaker.
Gold!
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I dig your videos
Excellent !
Killer tutorial🤟🏼