speakers, OHMs, and wiring in parallel or series?

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2008-10-16 02:40:27 +0000

I would avoid connecting any speakers in series or in parallel.
Simply connect the 4 speakers to 2 left /2 right and the remaining 2 as
rear left/rear right.

You can hear the rear only if you get multichannel audio in or perhaps the receiver has a pseudo-surround sound to feed them audio from a stereo source.

2008-10-15 00:28:37 +0000

Is this receiver just a stereo or exactly how many channels is it?

The speaker rating is per channel.

2008-10-15 01:33:50 +0000

In any channel that you want to use two speakers, connect them in series. This will give you 16 ohms which the amp can handle. Be sure you connect them properly: Red amp output (+) to red connector (+) of speaker #1, black (-) of speaker #1 to red (+) of speaker #2, black (-) of speaker #2 to black (-) of the amp output.

Be sure to balance the volumes of the speaker using the amp's test tones after doing this.

2008-10-15 01:20:25 +0000

It sounds like you have a surround sound receiver. The center, right rear and left rear are only used when you are in surround sound mode and have a surround sound source.
If you are only using the receiver in stereo mode, only the front left and right speakers would have any sound coming from them.
If you only want to use the receiver in stereo mode and want to use all 6 speakers, this is the way I would hook it up:
Wire up one 8 ohm and one 6 ohm speaker in series. Do this to the other pair of speakers too. You will now have 14 ohms that you can wire up to each of the 2 normal channels - one for right and one for left. Then hook up the remaining two 8 ohm speakers to the remaining right and left channels. This will allow you to use all 6 speakers. However, hooking things up this way, the sound level from each speaker will be different. Some speakers will probably sound louder than others. This is an unfortunate byproduct of hooking up speakers in this manner. However it will preserve the impedance your amp needs.

2008-10-15 01:20:30 +0000

You clearly have no idea at all what you are doing. You should enlist the aid of a local friend to help you set your system up.

Hooking up speakers in series makes no sense. Hooking them up in parallel makes more sense, but lowers the impedance seen by your power amp, resulting in excess power draw and heat production. Neither way is likely to achieve desirable results.

It sounds like your receiver is a 7.1 receiver. You need 7 separately wired speakers plus a subwoofer to use all the channels. You can easily get by with a 5.1 setup. But please stop (a) guessing and (b) asking uninformed Yahoo Answerers. Don't you know anyone who understands home theater setup?

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