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Question about hooking 4 speakers into 2 channels.

post #1 of 11
12/13/07 at 1:42pm
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I just put together a budget 5.1 system and I am using 4 pioneer speakers for my front and back channels. The smaller of the 2 are still pretty large, 3 way 12 inch woofer etc. I want to know if I can double up my front channels with 2 speakers per side. The speakers are 6 ohms and they handle roughly 150 watts for the bigger pair and 120 for the smaller pair. My receiver pushes 100 watts per channel. If this is possible I will be adding a much smaller set of speakers for my rear sound..

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post #2 of 11
12/13/07 at 1:52pm
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Originally Posted by ddrheretic View Post

I just put together a budget 5.1 system and I am using 4 pioneer speakers for my front and back channels. The smaller of the 2 are still pretty large, 3 way 12 inch woofer etc. I want to know if I can double up my front channels with 2 speakers per side. The speakers are 6 ohms and they handle roughly 150 watts for the bigger pair and 120 for the smaller pair. My receiver pushes 100 watts per channel. If this is possible I will be adding a much smaller set of speakers for my rear sound.

Why do you want to use 2 speakers per front channel? Bad idea acoustically. Not only that, but if you parallel wire 2 pairs of 6ohm speakers, you'll present a 3ohm load to the receiver which it most likely will not like too much.
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post #3 of 11
12/13/07 at 1:58pm
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I thought that it would change the ohms. It seems like a waste having such large speakers in the rear channels.. Maybe I will just replace the rears with something much smaller and use the replaced speakers with an old 2 channel receiver in a basement bathroom type stereo.
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post #4 of 11
12/13/07 at 2:51pm
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It seems like a waste having such large speakers in the rear channels...

Why? If you said they take up too much space, I'd understand. But, except when using surround-specific speakers, the more closely identical the speakers are in a surround setup, the better.
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post #5 of 11
12/13/07 at 3:08pm
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I forgot to mention I have fallen over the rear speakers a couple times now.. Usually in the middle of the night when it is dark. The back speakers are only like 3 feet away from me when I am listening to music/gaming so for their size it feels like they are way to close to me.
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post #6 of 11
12/13/07 at 3:14pm
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I forgot to mention I have fallen over the rear speakers a couple times now.. Usually in the middle of the night when it is dark.

So wanting smaller rear speakers is understandable.


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The back speakers are only like 3 feet away from me when I am listening to music/gaming so for their size it feels like they are way to close to me.

Have you calibrated your individual speaker level trims properly?
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post #7 of 11
12/13/07 at 3:23pm
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No. I should probably do that.. I totally forgot about that. Another question. Is it possible to make my front and back speakers handle more bass.. It seems like my sub is handling most of it.
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post #8 of 11
12/13/07 at 3:56pm
and why would you want your speakers to handle what the sub was made for?
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post #9 of 11
12/13/07 at 4:26pm
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No. I should probably do that.. I totally forgot about that.

Yeah, that's ESSENTIAL.


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Another question. Is it possible to make my front and back speakers handle more bass.. It seems like my sub is handling most of it.

To what size do you have your speaker channels set?
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post #10 of 11
12/13/07 at 4:48pm
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FL CS RL

I've been tweaking it a bit over the past couple hours. I may end up moving the sub out of the corner.

I wanted my speakers to handle more bass because they can.. If i'm not gonna get much bass from them I will replace them with something smaller and use them in another system.
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post #11 of 11
12/13/07 at 5:01pm
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FL CS RL

I've been tweaking it a bit over the past couple hours. I may end up moving the sub out of the corner.

I wanted my speakers to handle more bass because they can.. If i'm not gonna get much bass from them I will replace them with something smaller and use them in another system.

Set to LARGE, your front speakers should be receiving plenty of bass, especially when listening to music.
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