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I've spent a couple minutes searching, but nothing has popped up.
Its just a simple question for you guys who are more electronically inclined than I.
I have a 2x100 RMS Pioneer car amp, which I want to install into a wooden box, with a volume knob, power knob and a power LED at the front and RCA inputs and speaker crimps at the back. I'll run this amp off a computer PSU also built into the box, and have it look like a matching component of my current wooden computer project.
Signal is to come from the PC, the amp is basically intended to be just that.. an amp.
Now I have connected the amp to an old power supply, which apart from the screaming fan on the power supply seems to provide ample power. I'll deal with that issue later, probably by buying a more suitable PSU. I've successfully hooked all this up to the PC, and it works great... with car speakers (Kenwood 7x10s in boxes).
I want to use a set of AR9s which I am rather attached to (70's Acoustic Research speakers) because I prefer the warmer sound of these old (top end stuff at the time) speakers, and I just want to make an amp without bells and whistles that matches the computer box. Not interested in surround sound, subs, or PC speakers at all, just a nice stereo sound using the PC as a source. The car amp is lying around, and it should be no biggie to stick it into a wooden box with a PSU and a volume pot I would have thought.
However, when I try to run my old AR9 home speakers off it, it sounds like crap. The volume is paltry compared to the car speakers, and there is a lot of noise which sounds like the speakers are crapping themselves. Obviously the home speakers are 8ohms, and the amp is nominally 2/4ohms.. I assume this is the problem? Both sets of speakers have similar nominal power ratings, the only difference is the ohms as far as I can tell.
Can anyone suggest a cure..?
Its just a simple question for you guys who are more electronically inclined than I.
I have a 2x100 RMS Pioneer car amp, which I want to install into a wooden box, with a volume knob, power knob and a power LED at the front and RCA inputs and speaker crimps at the back. I'll run this amp off a computer PSU also built into the box, and have it look like a matching component of my current wooden computer project.
Signal is to come from the PC, the amp is basically intended to be just that.. an amp.
Now I have connected the amp to an old power supply, which apart from the screaming fan on the power supply seems to provide ample power. I'll deal with that issue later, probably by buying a more suitable PSU. I've successfully hooked all this up to the PC, and it works great... with car speakers (Kenwood 7x10s in boxes).
I want to use a set of AR9s which I am rather attached to (70's Acoustic Research speakers) because I prefer the warmer sound of these old (top end stuff at the time) speakers, and I just want to make an amp without bells and whistles that matches the computer box. Not interested in surround sound, subs, or PC speakers at all, just a nice stereo sound using the PC as a source. The car amp is lying around, and it should be no biggie to stick it into a wooden box with a PSU and a volume pot I would have thought.
However, when I try to run my old AR9 home speakers off it, it sounds like crap. The volume is paltry compared to the car speakers, and there is a lot of noise which sounds like the speakers are crapping themselves. Obviously the home speakers are 8ohms, and the amp is nominally 2/4ohms.. I assume this is the problem? Both sets of speakers have similar nominal power ratings, the only difference is the ohms as far as I can tell.
Can anyone suggest a cure..?