Thanks, so much for the answer. My reason for asking is that I am trying to put together a small town street dance with a friend of mine and I want to have enough wattage to do it. These speakers belong to a JVC system that my wife purchased new in 79-80. I will be using a Peavey xr-600f powered mixer (200 watts per channel) and I will be singing into a Shure Beta 58a mic. The Peavey instruction manual says that my total ohms on one channel must never go below 4 ohms, which, if I understand, is what two eight ohm speakers total. The only speakers I have so far are the Klipsch. I had been borrowing someone else's music system up to now, and I am gradually building my own.