@dekay Has it right.
4 speakers in a large room
Would appreciate some opinions about connecting four bookshelf speakers in a large room at home (the room is an open space where I have kitchen and dining/living room).
I have 4 bookshelf speakers (Dali Spektor 1) at the corners pointing towards the center. This is for ambient sound, easy listening while I’m cooking.
I don’t have them connected to an amplifier yet and my question is: should I hook them as two stereo pairs (A and B to an amplifier with two sets of outputs); Or should I search for an amplifier providing mono outputs, so all speakers play the same? Which option is the best for this kind of arrangement? I know in Pro Audio, the speakers at a venue work in mono. Should I do the same? Will two stereo pairs sound “strange”?
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@dekay I don't have any answer for you . |
If it's mainly for ambient music, you could get an old AVR (you can find them cheap nowadays and some very good brands), then play around with the different surround sound modes. I did that in my workshop. Sounds fine for background music. You don't need to hook up the center speaker unless you have a place for it, same for a sub. I have it with 2 sets of mis-matched speakers, I tried all the surround-sound modes (Movie, Stadium, Hall, etc. that most AVR's have) and it sounds quite good. Yeah, might be a bit odd of a solution, but it works very well, and would definitely sound better then mono or an A+B setup. Plus you don't have to worry about wiring it weird/wrong or the Ohms. Just an idea that works for me. |
Just found this simple test on Quora (though I've read similar takes elsewhere).
"Almost always the speakers were just paralleled. It's easy to tell. With just one set of speakers on A, if A+B parallels them then the speakers will continue to work going from A to A+B If A+B places them in series then switching from A to A+B will silence the speakers."
DeKay |
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