Advice please - how to repurpose a Denon AVR-3805 receiver

BillB123 said:

I have a question about how to repurpose a Denon AVR-3805 receiver to power 4 "rock" speakers around my patio. It accepts 6-16ohms.
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I have 2 "nile" rock speakers (RS6) and 2 klipsch rock speakers (AWR-650-SM). The Niles are 8 ohm and have a positive and negative wire; the klipsch speakers each have 4 wires. I will wire the pos/neg together to connect to the receiver (because I don't know what I am doing lol), resulting in 4ohms from each klipsch speaker. Note: if I wired them using 2 channel wiring, each channel would have 8 ohms per speaker.
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I simply want the same sound to come out of each speaker at the same time around the pool.
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The receiver also has a "surround back/multi zone" connector section. Not sure if I can use those in addition to the front/back connectors.

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philpoe said:

You could connect a Nile in series to a Klipsch (in 4ohm mode) to make a 10ohm load on the front left/right channels.
The speakers will probably not play at the same volume, but it may not make a difference if you mean to play background music.

The manual doesn't list this as an option, and you may want to contact their support to verify, but you could also connect the 2 sections of the Klipsch speaker to make each a 16ohm speaker, and use Surr Back/Mult iZone terminals of the AVR.
Then you could use the Zone 2 volume to control how loud each pair plays.

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BillB123 said:

Thanks for the advice. Was considering connecting them via "series" but, after reading the volume might be different, am reconsidering. Do you know if the volume difference will be significant?

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