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I intend to connect 2 sets of rear speakers (monopole on side wall and dipole on rear wall) to my AV receiver having only one set rear speaker output for Dolby Digital playback. My questions are:
a) Is it possible?
b) If yes, how do I go about it with the wire connections?
c) Will it cause any damage to the rear loudspeakers?
d) Will it affect the surround sound quality?Thanks in advance for all your helpful response.
Other than to experiment, maybe because you have an extra pair of speakers laying around, what's the point of doing this? Some processors (e.g., the Proceed AVP) have provisions for side and rear channel effects. Most don't. I assume your's doesn't, otherwise it would also come with the preamp or speaker jacks for side & rear channels.Do you have an especially large room? If it is, and the side speakers are to cover the larger space, perhaps this makes sense. I believe you can find simple boxes at Radio Shack, and more expensive ones at hi fi stores which allow you to split and distribute audio to different speakers.
Otherwise, if you're just experimenting, keep in mind that it's just as likely that you are going to muck up your sound by tapping an additional set of speakers, of a different design from your rears, on to a receiver whose surround processing and amps were not designed to decode movies in this fashion. You'll have localized sound coming out of the sides, plus the difuse sound from the rears all jumbled up. It may not sound as good as using the setup the receiver was designed for.
Just connect the second pair to the same output like the other guy said if it is high current most average amp are capable of doing this.. I run 3 pairs of fronts and I can crank it to wall, room, roof, shaking levels with exceptional surround sound quality so I would do it.
Yes, it's possible....If you are using a 5.1 Reciever, you most likely have Preamp outputs
in addition to your amplifier outputs. Just connect the two rear
channel preamp outputs to a power amp that drives the two new rears.If you have a really good receiver (high current drive) you could try
to drive both sets of speakers from the rear channel amp outputs of
your receiver. This is tricky because as you add more speakers the
impedance to the amp drops, and the current it has to drive rises
(thus the high current driving amps). If you connect two 8_Ohm
speakers to one amp terminal - it looks like 4_Ohms, connect two
4_Ohm speakers to one amp terminal - it looks like 2_Ohms. Go too
low, and you'll damage the amp (like short curcuiting the amp).Best option is the first - using a second amp.
Whats the difference in doing what HL wants to do and bi-wiring?
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