Please enlighten me. The speaker selctor - works like a what? an amp or receiver? Connection will be: Amp -- Selector -- Speakers (4sets). A usual amp only accept 1 set of speakers. But, with this can extend to 4 sets. Besides, I can play all four at...
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Your AMP supports speakers with a particular impedance (4/8/16 Ohms) and thus is capable of driving a particular current down the wire to the speaker. Adding additional speakers to a single connection increases the current that the amplifier must drive (load) and can cause issues with overloading the amplifier outputs. Using something like this allows you to match the impedance correctly and not overload the amplifier and allow you to hook up to 4 sets of speakers to the amplifier. The downside is that amp only delivers 1 power numbers, so to drive all 4 sets of speaker that power will be split across all 4 sets. Thus when driving all 4 at once the volume would probably be 25% of actual volume (assuming you drive all 4 at the same level). You would then need to adjust the volume at the amp for that situation, but at least you are still within the limits of the amplifier and shouldn't cause any issues.
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Ok I'm going to try and keep it simple. Normally, once the amp is connected the 'sound' travels out of the red/white or left/right speaker connectors that are attached then to the speaker system. In your case, think of the speaker box as a 'conjunction' (like the words 'and/ but' in a sentence)..so just connect the 'speaker out' on your amp to the 'speaker in' on the speaker selector box...then connect the speaker box to the 6 speakers...be ready with a small flat head screw driver to open each the speaker connection ports...it's a bit more tedious but assures a professional non clip in/out connection...good luck...and make sure every thing is off to avoid 'blowing out' of the speakers and/or unit. Ok I'm going to try and keep it simple. Normally, once the amp is connected the 'sound' travels out of the red/white or left/right speaker connectors that are attached then to the speaker system. In your case, think of the speaker box as a 'conjunction' (like the words 'and/ but' in a sentence)..so just connect the 'speaker out' on your amp to the 'speaker in' on the speaker selector box...then connect the speaker box to the 6 speakers...be ready with a small flat head screw driver to open each the speaker connection ports...it's a bit more tedious but assures a professional non clip in/out... » Read More Ok I'm going to try and keep it simple. Normally, once the amp is connected the 'sound' travels out of the red/white or left/right speaker connectors that are attached then to the speaker system. In your case, think of the speaker box as a 'conjunction' (like the words 'and/ but' in a sentence)..so just connect the 'speaker out' on your amp to the 'speaker in' on the speaker selector box...then connect the speaker box to the 6 speakers...be ready with a small flat head screw driver to open each the speaker connection ports...it's a bit more tedious but assures a professional non clip in/out connection...good luck...and make sure every thing is off to avoid 'blowing out' of the speakers and/or unit. « Show Less
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It has 3 sets of preouts that can be connected to amplifiers. I personally have this one connected to an amplifier on the subwoofer preout. You can also set it up to treat the rear speakers as subwoofers and it will only send the low end to that set of speakers. I hope this helps!
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This is a stereo receiver designed to play analog audio - so you can set up two sets of stereo speakers and a sub woofer. You can run the sets either together or independently. But you will only have stereo (i.e. two speakers) differential. If you want surround sound (utilizing more than two speakers) then this is not the receiver for you.
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I think you will find you can connect up more than one set of speakers anyway on the same amp ie speakers 1 and 2 you can lay speakers in another room to play from that amplifier just switch over on the remote control
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I used my existing 7 speakers & woofer. You may wish to check that the speakers match this amp. The power or ohms, not sure which. The setup process checks for speakers. I reckon that will just do the right thing b
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Please see the attached quote directly from the Sonos website and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) listing...."The Connect: Amp is designed for a single pair of speakers- it is a stereo amplifier, right and left channel. However, if your speakers are rated at 8 ohms, you can wire up to 2 pairs, or 4 speakers, to one Connect: Amp- you just won't have independent control between those two pairs of speakers, in terms of volume and music selection." The Sonos site can be found from this link...http://www.sonos.com/support#
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how many speakers are you trying to connect? it will connect to any receiver.
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I went through a steep and maybe incomplete learning curve when I wanted to add multiple speaker pairs to my setup but I do not believe you have to have speakers to all of the inputs for 8 ohm output. This switch is auto impedance matching. My system is 4 ohm amplifier and I've had 1, 2, 3 and 4 pairs of speakers connected at various times and have never had 6 pairs, the switch has worked great and I use it all the time when I am at home. One thing I would caution on is that while description says that you can use two sources at the same time I've found that you get bleeding from one source to the other side. I went through a steep and maybe incomplete learning curve when I wanted to add multiple speaker pairs to my setup but I do not believe you have to have speakers to all of the inputs for 8 ohm output. This switch is auto impedance matching. My system is 4 ohm amplifier and I've had 1, 2, 3 and 4 pairs of speakers connected at various times and have never had 6 pairs, the switch has worked great and I use it all the time when I am at home. One thing I would caution on is that while description says that you can use two sources at the same time I've found that you get bleeding from one source... » Read More I went through a steep and maybe incomplete learning curve when I wanted to add multiple speaker pairs to my setup but I do not believe you have to have speakers to all of the inputs for 8 ohm output. This switch is auto impedance matching. My system is 4 ohm amplifier and I've had 1, 2, 3 and 4 pairs of speakers connected at various times and have never had 6 pairs, the switch has worked great and I use it all the time when I am at home. One thing I would caution on is that while description says that you can use two sources at the same time I've found that you get bleeding from one source to the other side. « Show Less
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I mean it has two different ports . One 3.5mm port for standard/computer speakers and an RCA port for higher quality speakers. Both work great and very good sound quality. Im pretty sure any speakers can do and if one fails , then maybe you must use adapters and your set to go :)
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They will work with any receiver/amp, as to how well, you will need to match up specifications. You have given no information about your receiver so at this point you are the only one who knows. You must compare numbers, it never hurts to have some more power than is recommended. Common sense still applies in operation and usage of said power. Aside from all that, these are amazing speakers for their price. Enjoy.
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I am not a big expert on amps or speakers. I can tell you that I use four Sony Bookshelf speakers which work just fine. See Sony SS-B1000 5-1/4-Inch Bookshelf Speakers (Pair)
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Hi Gonzalez,The amp says it is 5.1 that means 2 front speakers, 2 back speakers a center speaker (2+2+1=5) and a subwoofer (.1)You can be sure that there is a subwoofer out in the receiver.Hope this helps!
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I don't understand your question--you speak of connecting one regular speaker wire to these rca connections, but this _is_ the speaker wire, so it sounds as if you're asking about connecting a speaker wire to the speaker wire. This product is only used to connect speakers that have a single rca input on the back to a receiver, so on one end of each wire there's a male rca jack, and on the other there's two strands of bare copper wire that you connect to the positive and negative terminals on the back of your receiver. The rca jack does not plug into the receiver, as there's only one rca plug per wire--so if you're looking for speaker wire with rca plugs on the receiver end, this isn't the right product for you.
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Hi Mike,with this Equalizer you can connect up to 4 amps,right now i have connected 2 amps and is working fine, i am planing to connect an extra amp soon,Cheers!
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Maybe. The more speakers that you connect the lower their effective impedance as seen by the amplifier. And the lower the effective impedance the higher the current that the amplifier must generate in order to drive the speakers to a specific listening level without distortion. Most speakers, particularly the less costly ones, have a nominal 8 ohm impedance. So if you are driving one set of such speakers the amplifier will be seeing an 8 ohm load. But if your amplifier is driving 2 sets of such speakers the amplifier will be seeing 1/(1/8 + 1/8) = a 4 ohm load; if your amplifier is driving 3 sets of such speakers the amplifier will be seeing a 1/(1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8) = 2.7 ohm load, etc. With 6 speakers your amplifier will be seeing a 1.3 ohm load. And this would be a nominal and typically maximum load; in practice the load fluctuates depending on frequency and is effectively lower for short periods of time. Some amplifiers are designed to drive such low loads but many are not. If you try to do that with such a low current amplifier for a long period of time you will burn up the amplifier. That is why speaker selectors like this one have a protection button which basically adds a resistance in series with the speakers in order to increase the impedance seen by the amplifier. This will reduce the overall efficiency and you will notice that you have to increase the volume to get the same amount of sound as with the protection button off. So, if your amplifier has a sufficient current capability to drive those 6 speakers to your desired listening levels, great. If it doesn't, and if the listening level is too low for your tastes with the protection button on, you will need to either settle for lower volume or get a more powerful amplifier.
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Q: can you use this to power 4 6x9 speakers (150rms each at 4ohm) And how would you wire a high level imput into this amp? (stock head unit because they dont make an aftermarket one)A: You can buy the speaker line to RCA adapter to feed your speaker lines into the amp. I used an Audiocontrol LC6i in my setup but not necessary unless you want to add subwoofer and amps.I have a small amp for my speakers and one amp for this sub. 2ohms is how the shop I went to set it up. The amp I got was like $65 and it works great. I've had both for about 1.5-2 years now