Pioneer Receiver Impedance Question

July 12, 2013 8:35 PM

My friend's birthday is coming up and I want to surprise her with an upgrade to her lousy, blown-out speakers. The problem is, I can't sneak a peak at the back of her receiver to check the impedance and I don't want to get incompatible speakers accidentally. I hear 8-16 ohms is the standard? Does anyone have a Pioneer VSX-3900S they can check out? Much obliged.
posted by ktoad to Technology (4 answers total)

8-16 ohms
posted by Monday, stony Monday at 8:40 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Beautiful, thank you! *case closed*
posted by ktoad at 9:07 PM on July 12, 2013

For future reference, any home speaker that isn't part of some kind of oddball closed system is going to be 8 ohms.
posted by contraption at 1:59 AM on July 13, 2013

Seconding contraption. You want 8 ohms.
posted by TheAdamist at 4:05 AM on July 13, 2013