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| Thread ID: 108769 | 2010-04-11 05:25:00 | Speaker wiring - four speakers off one pair of binding posts? | Tukapa (62) | PC World Chat |
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| 875112 | 2010-04-11 05:25:00 | Hi I am just wiring up my home theatre system and have done so using 5.1 channels off my 7.1 channel receiver. I can use the back surrounds (which are the remaining unused binding posts) to set up a second zone from the receiver. My question is can I use that to run two pair of speakers? I have speakers in the ceiling of my dining room and speakers outside onto the entertaining area and there are wall mounted binding posts for both these pairs of speakers behind the receiver. Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 875113 | 2010-04-11 07:15:00 | Not too certain what you mean. Are you thinking that you require two wires for each speaker? If that is your question, then no, you do not. You only need one wire for each speaker. Each speaker can then use a common return. X amount of speakers on requires X wires plus one common return. Does that answer your question? | Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 875114 | 2010-04-11 08:33:00 | It will depend on the AMP and speaker ratings if it will be OK for you to do that. Generally it is normally OK to run two pairs of speakers off one set of speaker outputs. The downside to the way you want to do it is of cause that both pairs of speakers will be on at the same time and you won't have seperate volume controls for each pair (unless it has been wired with a volume control for each pair somewhere) |
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