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Old December 22nd, 2007, 05:29 PM   #17 (permalink)
JohnnyCrash
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Originally Posted by Bob Arbogast View Post
Actually, what you are measuring is DC resistance, not impedance. Impedance is frequency dependant, and for any given speaker varies considerably throughout the speaker's usable frequency range, with a peak at the speaker's resonant frequency. The stated impedance of a speaker is always a nominal value, an approximation, as it were.

Bob Arbogast


Either way, we're both talking about the variation among a manufactured product. No two speakers are uniform... like you said, an "approximation."

A 2.9 versus 2 ohm mismatch is nothing to worry about :)
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