Magnetic Earphones - Series Or Parallel?

May 01, 2008 1 Replies

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Brendan Gillatt

Series/parallel in respect to what? If you want to attach both earphones together you may have problems - in series the impedance will be effectively doubled, halving the power each gets (if they are both of the same impedance); in parallel the impedance will be halved…

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I am thinking of building a set of earphones for my regen radio, as an alternative to my extremely uncomfortable antique magnetic earphones. I found some cheap earphones at Antique Electronic Supply (P-A102) that I will use, what is the best way to connect them, series or parallel? I got this idea from the first project on

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except he's using piezo earpieces instead of magnetic.


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