Pioneer VSX-919AH-K Speaker B Mono?

Originally Posted by aperture01

Hi Everyone,

New to the forum, but have been reading for awhile. I just purchased a VSX-919AH-K and i'm enjoying it quite a bit. I've just wired the system up in my apartment with a set of Energy RC-10s for the fronts. I've ran the MCACC, set up the speakers as large in the manual speaker setup, and everything seems to run great.

Now to my problem. I have a small balcony in my apartment and I've wired a small Boston Acoustics outdoor speaker to the Speaker B terminal. I connected it to the right terminal which said "(Single)" on it. The sound is "okay" it sounds like its missing some definition. I realize it's one speaker but it sounds like it missing some audio from one of the channels. Does this receiver automatically know there is one speaker hooked up and put both channels through that speaker? I doubt it. I don't see any audio modes I can set it to to force a mix to the single channel. Is there anything I can do to make sure i'm getting a mono mix on that channel, or am I SOL? I want stereo in the main zone though, only that one speaker on the B speaker channel.

Originally Posted by aperture01

Wow I was looking for exactly that. It'd be great if the stereo did this with some sort of switch though. $40?, geez... I guess it's a specialty piece. I think the audio coming out of that speaker will be so much better with something like that. It sounds so tinny and thin, even for a single channel. Does that thing come as shown or is there some sort of casing around it? Seems like it could be a bit dangerous if not mounted up out of the way or something. The stereo is putting out 120 watts (rated of course) per channel. I think I may have to go with the 100 watt one.

Originally Posted by aperture01

The outdoor speaker is a Boston Accoustics Soundware.

I don't think it'll be a problem but I have the receiver running in 6 ohm mode as the Energy RC-10s are 8 ohm nominal 4 ohm minimum. Or am I mistaken by the 8 ohm nominal 4 ohm minimum thing. This forces the outdoor to run at 6 too which is rated for 8. Shouldn't be too much of a problem right?

I suppose i'm just concerned about piping too channels into one then out. I guess the converter takes care of the output. And I won't be pushing it that hard anyway.