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Powering nine home speakers
Hi. I have a large open living room and want to increase the wattage I have running my speakers. I currently have an Onkyo 7-channel amp and took the front left and right outs and have them going to an OSD Audio ATM7 7-zone speaker selector. However the Onkyo amp is not powerful enough to drive all 9 speakers strong enough. It sounds very weak.
The only device I want to connect is a sonos connect that I have. Currently I connect the optical out of that to the Onkyo amp. Should I introduce a second amp? How exactly would I connect them? Would I run the sonos connect into one amp and take the preamp outs to the other amp? Can you have a standard front left and right out AND a preamp out at the same time?
i only want/need stereo sound not surround.
Thanks!
The only device I want to connect is a sonos connect that I have. Currently I connect the optical out of that to the Onkyo amp. Should I introduce a second amp? How exactly would I connect them? Would I run the sonos connect into one amp and take the preamp outs to the other amp? Can you have a standard front left and right out AND a preamp out at the same time?
i only want/need stereo sound not surround.
Thanks!
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Hifiman, can I ask how you would recommend wiring the 9th speaker? It seems like I could run 3 in parallel which would be 2.66 ohm. My onkyo amp specs are 8/4/3 ohm. Is the difference significant enough? i also just received a second amp that is 100w x 2 (Yamaha R-S202) which is 8 ohm. I would prefer to keep them in stereo as the layout of the room works well even with the odd speaker due to the seating. |
Since you have the onkyo receiver with 7 channel of power amp, and a stereo amp (Yamaha R-S202), why not make full use of all 9 channel of amplification! Just connect 7 of the ceiling speakers to the onkyo speaker terminals via a/b speaker switcher on each speaker: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/attachments/newbie-audio-engineering-production-question-zone/421582... connect the Yamaha line in to onkyo front R/L out, and use the Yamaha to power two more ceiling speakers. Select Full mono or Neo 6 music playback mode on your onkyo for room filling music listening. |
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