Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio Put a home audio speaker in a contour must be crazy correct!?

There are those out there who believe in putting home audio loudspeakers, mini monitors of course, into their car. read below

"The LS3/5a I can also see somewhere in the passenger dash.
Likely the Quad II's would have to run in the front trunk (bonnet)
with forced air cooling (ahh, a return to Porsche principles) and of
course some type of inverter/converter supply for the mains power.
The trickier part is creating some type of folded conjugate load AB1
enclosure that could take the rest of the bonnet space. You can
then "Pipe" in, literally, the output of the port into the passenger
compartment. Before you laugh, a similar process is being done
already with the subwoofer on top of the emergency spare. However,
other fast woofer systems, like Paris Audio's dual 5" Focal system or
single 8" JL Audio system in the passenger foot well, there is more
than enough low bass and especially well integrated to the satellites."

This quote was taken from a LS3/5A yahoo group.

I don't see any benefit. Just a bunch of people with too much money on their hands.

Infact it is probably Bad to put home audio into your car. Home audio usually runs at 8 ohms while car audio usually runs at 4 ohms. Unless you find an 8ohm stable amp of course. But if not it will reduce dramatically the life of your home audio speaker and amp.

Well, the impedance isn't what would be an issue. I would just question spending thousands to put some monitor speakers in your car, when you can spend hundreds and probably get similar sound. The impedance would only affect the output of the amp, it wouldn't hurt the speakers or the amp in any way.

Why?
I agree with dnewma04 on this.
Home audio may be better built in some cases, but they are not designed for the car enviroment.
Too much money for no improvement.

home audio run on dc volts not ac that is why they are lower wattage. You would kill home speakers at high power in a car. THey are not designed to run ac volts and have lower power handling than even crappy car speakers.

The type of voltage that feeds the power supply of an amplifier has nothing to do with power handling of a speaker or single driver. Quite a few of the highest end car audio products were derived from home audio companies.

Dave said:
"Quite a few of the highest end car audio products were derived from home audio companies."

Just curious Dave but could you name a few of these companies and the specific car audio product that is also offered in car audio. And please do not just mention Polk Audio or even Focal(JMLabs) I am sure that JMLabs drivers are not used within the car audio relm.

Focal-Focal
Morel-Xtant, Morel, and another that is eluding me at this point.
Vifa/Scanspeak-Soundstream among many others.
TC Sounds-Audiomobile is most noteworthy, but a lot of the high excursion subs on the market were made by TC.
Seas-Seas Excel, Rainbow
Dynaudio-Dynaudio

any amp that is stable at 4 ohms is also stable at 8 ohms. higher impedance speakers does not damage an amp. it MAY, however, damage the speakers if the system is being run at high volumes and the amp can't squeeze enough controlled power for large signal peaks.

the other disadvantages are materials. home stereo equipment really isn't built to handle the temp changes, humidity changes, and shock of a car environment.