raceman3
Well-known member
I have a 2008 Coachman Captiva that came with a DVD Player / surround sound receiver. The DVD player has taken a ghost walk and is very picky about the DVD's it plays if it plays at all. That being said I decided to look for a replacement but was unable to find just the receiver / DVD player without purchasing speakers as well. I finally broke down and picked one up this week which came with the speakers that I don't need since mine are built into the ceiling. I hooked up the new receiver and everything sounded fine inside. I went out to get something from my truck and noticed that the outside speakers had some garbled noise coming from them which I thought was odd because the inside selector switch was set to inside only. I looked at my old receiver and noticed that on the back all the speaker connections were rated for 4 ohms. I pulled the new receiver out and the connections on the back were rated for 6 and 8 ohms. Put the old receiver back in and the outside speakers function as they should. My question is where do I go from here? I can't seem to find anybody that makes a 4 ohm DVD/receiver combo anymore they are all rated for 8 ohms. I really don't want to replace all my speakers since there is nothing wrong with them and I still have the issue of the selector switch where the bleed-over occurs. I had thought about putting a 4 ohm resistor on the positive speaker leads but apparently nobody makes them anymore and if the do they are only rated for about 20 watts.
