2 0hm Speakers

[gregmondro]

anyone know a good set of 2 ohm speakers to replace the Monsoon rear seat speakers with (the 6 */* ones). I just realized that both of mine were completely dead (thought just one was, but I took them both out today and they were both blown...

I know there's gotta be somoe decent 2 ohm speakers or something that won't sound like **** with the monsoon system. anyone [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ChameleonGreen]

It's not that the aftermarket speakers would suck, it's that the Monsoon amp sucks. Even if you put good speakers on the Monsoon amp, the amp will still put out dirty power. You would be better of buying a new 4ch amp and replacing your speakers. You can get a JBL 80.4 for $128 shipped from www.ikesound.com That will give you 80rms per channel at 4ohms. Then if you don't really care so much you can get some entry level speakers instead of maybe some mid-class speakers to upgrade your existing crappy stock ones. You would be much happier with that setup.

However, if you really want to keep the Monsoon amp for some strange reason, Image Dynamics makes a 2ohm set of components. Orion makes a 2ohm component set as well. But, I wouldn't toss speakers that good and pricey onto that Monsoon amp. Orion also has a cheap 3ohm Cobalt coax set.

[gregmondro]

right now the whole problem is $$$. I don't wanna spend a lot of money on an amp to replace the monsoon one if I don't need to. I might just buy monsoon speakers to replace the ones that I've blown out.

[nikon]

get some 4 ohm speakers....go to radio shack and pick up whats called a inline 4ohm resistor....it brings 4 ohms to 2 ohms...so it doesnt take as much power to run the speakers...hence they play louder and are turned into 2 ohm....I had to do this with my front 2 speakers...the thing costs about 4$.....and then your 4ohm speakers....hope this helps ;)

[chas]

of course, everyone tells you that you are insane crazy to want to try to replace the monsoon speakers. see the various posts on cz28.com's audio section.

however, i have been looking into this a bit (because i am cheap and dont need a competition grade audio system).

are you sure the rear sail panel speakers are 2-ohm? looking at the schematics on the houston f-body web site houston f-body website there is some confusion. the dual voice speakers are shown as one coil being 4-ohm and the other being 2-ohm. seems pretty unlikely. the site says its a 4-ohm dual voice coil subwoofer. so which is it really?

the IDQ6 (4 ohm) and IDQ62 (2 ohm) might be a possible choice. i dont believe these are dual voice coil though.

[gregmondro]

the rear seat sidewall speakers actually say that they are 2ohm on the speaker (when you take it off, the back of the speaker has AC Delco, 2 ohm, and some other stuff printed on the back.(

[chas]

really? interesting. i had the speakers out of my sail panels this weekend and both said 4ohm/4ohm, acdelo part no, and 'made in mexico'. dont know if the monsoon bi-amps or uses them in parallel. i imagine its parallel but have no proof one way or the other. my car is a '99 just like yours.

[gregmondro]

hrmm. now i'm second guessing what I read. I know it says the ohm rating on there, but now i'm kind of confused whether it was 2 ohm or 4 ohm.

It might be 4 ohm and the front door ones might be 2.