Resistance and Impedance are two different animals. The ohmmeter only shows
you DC resistance....it tells you nothing of the impedance. You need to go
back to electronic school.

Just go with whatever connection sounds the best and produces the loudest
output out of the speaker.

The impedance of the raw speaker is most likely 8-ohms.


"TchrMe" wrote in message
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Good evening to all on the list,
I just acquired a PM 23 spkr (the style with the h) and am in the
process of
restoring it. Several questions--the grill cloth under the grill is creme
colored. Is that the original color? Also the transformer looks like it
could
be a substitution.
What is the impedance of the spkr itself (without the xfmr) and how can I
tell
the input impedance of this mystery xfmr? When hooked to my SX 28A, the 5K
terminals had more clarity in the sound than the 500 ohm terminals (which
sounded more bassy). Just for the heck of it I measured the input
resistance
and got 470 ohms.
Thanks for the help ahead of time, 73 Mike KF6KXG