Car speakers can be conneted to a home reciever?

[frankies]

I know this may sound stupid but can you connect car speakers to a home reciever?

[canadian trader]

Yeah they can.

A/V fan buddy of mine had a 8' sub and 6.5' components mounted in a homemade mdf box hooked up to an ancient RCA receiver and cd player.

[AudiDude]

You can connect them, however the nominal impedance is 4 ohms for car speakers instead of 8 ohms that your home receiver may be expecting. Since the impedance (or resistance) is half of what the amplifier is designed to drive, it will attempt to push twice the power to the car speaker. During this attempt the home amplifier may try to protect itself from pushing twice the wattage to the car speakers by shutting itself off or it may overheat and shut itself off then. Also remember that your speakers will be receiving double the power and may suffer damage. Good home amplifiers will probably not shut off or overheat at all because they can deal with th is type of situation.

[frankies]

bump any more answers?

[Nyte]

Short Answer: Yes

Longer Answer: Look at what AudiDude said.

Also, if your car speakers are dual coil (assuming I remember correctly that the standard impedance per coil is 4 ohms) you can connect them in series to get the 8 ohms you need for a home receiver.

[toky]

Car speakers are usually 4 ohms so the answer is.....

No - if your amplifier only takes 8 ohms speakers
Yes, - if your amplifier takes both 4 & 8 ohms speakers