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[tuneman]

does anyone know of a brand that makes 6ohm speakers? i am looking for possible replacements for my usd's and there proving to be difficult to find.
they have to be this impedience to go with the passive crossover that there using at the moment, and be able to handle 200wrms each like the usd's do plus they must have steel baskets, the cast ones are to big to go into my recessed door pods.

[ultim8DTM5]

A lot of home speakers are 6 ohm can be found without too much searching, although handling 200wrms may be a difficult task.

[B00Mer]

Boston Pro's are 3-ohm, so maybe a pair each door in series would do the trick?

They could almost certainly handle the power, however, the baskets are probably too deep for your purposes.

You have sparked my interest though, as I'm sure I recall some specialist speaker companies out there doing 6-ohm jobbies. If I happen across some info I will let you know.

[suparoo]

vifa and scanspeak do some 6ohm speakers

[jas]

scanspeak 18w8545 is a 6ohm driver even though the 8 after the w stands for 8 ohms.

this driver works ok in free air applications and even better in a ported design

www.vifa-speak.com

they have impedence graphs, frequency graphs and other cool stuff

check it out

most of these drivers on this site are imported and offered at very reasonable prices from wescomponents (importer of vifa and scanspeak)

good luck

[tuneman]

cool!

[UsedBC]

also try JBL i think they do as well

[BlackRain]

JL W3v2's come in a dual 6 ohm.

You can wire up 1 voice coil per channel.
or wire two of them up in parallel - series.

Or a pair of W7's in series would give u 6 ohms

[ultim8DTM5]

But he doesn't want subs...

[BlackRain]

doh!
ignore my previous comment then.

[paddles]

focal... think polyglass?