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Am I underpowered on my QSC 1500a amplifier?

I have a 2 pairs of speakers - 2 of them are Yamaha CM12V - rated program at 500W daisy chained together on ch 1. The other pair of speakers are a Yamaha SM15111 - daisy chained to a Yamaha C115V - both program rated at 500W - on ch 2 - all the speakers have nominal impedance of 8 ohms. If the QSC MX1500a amplifer is rated at 330W per channel at 8 ohms, am I underpowering the speakers?
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erik_squires
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how are you using them and why do you think this might be true? 
roberjerman
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No! Your QSC amp will do substantially more than 300 watts at lower than 8 ohms! So connect your speakers in parallel - + to + and - to - ! It will probably deliver close to 500 watts at 4 ohms!
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