speakers and cables

@immatthewj I need to find the right gain but they sound good. A bit shaky/buzzy on their flimsy legs so I should find a better platform. 

I listened to a pair of $60 Celestion F3s for 6 weeks and I just switched back to my Evoke 20s, they sound extremely bright, suddenly.  

I like the Celestions overall better but I am going to give them a week. 

What I like about the subwoofers is that they very subtle. (Unlike others I tried they wanted to crack the ceiling.) I don't need a lot of bass, just that little extra the bookshelf speakers can't fill.

I would stay away from y splitters.  Y splitters hook 2 sets of drivers in parallel, which halves the inductance.  So the amp current doubles going into the low impedene load and it  trips.  You are lucky your amp has a breaker and does't just fail from the high current.

Never hook 2 loads up in parallel to one set of speaker outputs.

Jerry

thanks @carlsbad2! I didn't know this. Also noting the parallel - serial difference, I am a slow learner but I don't forget :)

Y splitters hook 2 sets of drivers in parallel, which halves the inductance. So the amp current doubles going into the low impedene load and it trips. You are lucky your amp has a breaker and does’t just fail from the high current.

Never hook 2 loads up in parallel to one set of speaker outputs.

But the ’Y’ splitters are not going to be connected to the amp, they are going to be used in the RCA outs of the preamp in order to send a full frequency signal to the subs and then also the RCA ins of the amp?

previous Y connector discussion

Klipsch forum discussion of Y connectors from preamp

AVS Y splitter from preamp discussion

AV forums discussion on Y splitters from preamp

I feel like a kid with a new toy with this url thing that @Dill showed me how to use!

Anyway, @griz, I don't know enough about this stuff to say you can or cannot safely do this, but I do know that back in my days of HT I called Cary Audio and asked the tech guy whether it would be okay to split the signal from pre with a 'Y' splitter, and the tech guy was okay with it.  What I was doing is not the same as what you are doing, however, I wanted to try (and did  actually do this for a while) splitting the center channel signal from my HT preamp and sending 1/2 to one side of my Cary tube amp, and then sending the other half to the other side of that same Cary amp, and then basically using that to biamp (so to speak) my center speaker.

Which is not what you are doing, as you are wanting to send one signal to two different amps, and do that two times (signal split to main amp L RCA in and also to L sub RCA in and then the same for the R side).

Maybe post that question on amps and preamps forum and maybe @atmasphere may see it and provide an answer.