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4 Canton CT-1000's into 2 speakers?

post #1 of 3
9/3/09 at 11:08am
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Hi All,
This might sound crazy be here goes....

I have 4 CT-1000 Canton Speakers that I want to turn into my front Left and Right for a home theater. (BIG ROOM)

My thought was placing them one on top of another.

1. Do I just run equal wire to the wall jack for each speaker?
2. Do I need anything special to make this work right?
3. The room is driven by a Denon 4308 that will be driving 8 Canton CT 1000

As F-FR / R-LR and / RS-LR

Will this work?
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post #2 of 3
9/3/09 at 11:38am
the speakers are 4 ohms each and if you wire them in "parallel" back to the receiver, you will blow out your amplifiers because the combined impedance of the two speakers will drop to 2 ohms.

If you are careful and wire them in "series", the combined impedance will be 8 ohms and the receiver can live quite happily with that.

http://www.bcae1.com/spkrmlti.htm the site is for car speakers, but the theory is the same for speaker enclosures.
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post #3 of 3
9/3/09 at 7:23pm
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Originally Posted by m_vanmeter View Post

the speakers are 4 ohms each and if you wire them in "parallel" back to the receiver, you will blow out your amplifiers because the combined impedance of the two speakers will drop to 2 ohms.

If you are careful and wire them in "series", the combined impedance will be 8 ohms and the receiver can live quite happily with that.

http://www.bcae1.com/spkrmlti.htm the site is for car speakers, but the theory is the same for speaker enclosures.

This is very interesting. Thank you for saving my AMP )

Could there be a phase issue here? Just wondering!

Thank you
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