Ohms are one of the specs that both speaker and receiver manufacturers use to give you an idea about their performance. Speakers and amplifiers alike are usually rated around 8 ohms, but that’s not ...

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I wouldn’t blame you if you assumed an 8 ohm speaker is always 8 ohms, but it’s not. Far from it, an 8 ohm rated speaker is actually 8 ohms only a small percentage of the time because the speaker’s ...