Multiple speakers in same outlet

I don't know how "Techman" got a "Guru" rating but his answer is completely stupid.

The manufacturer rates the speaker outputs for 8 ohms. Plenty of people have reported running 6 ohm speakers just fine. What few people realize is that this impedance rating is not fixed like a resistor, it changes based on frequency.

Anyway, all the rating means is that you have to keep the individual total speaker output rating near 8 ohms to avoid over or underloading the amplifier channel. You could put two 4 ohm speakers in series (some dual voicecoil subwoofers are manufactured this way on purpose), or two 16 ohm speakers in parallel. You could put four 2-ohm speakers in series, four 32 ohm speakers in parallel, two 2-ohm speakers in series with two 16 ohm speakers in parallel, etc etc etc. As long as the equivalent resistance presented to the speaker output is around 8 ohms.

Also if you underload (present more than 8 ohms) you won't "burn up" anything, you just won't develop the maximum volume potential of the amplifier out of the speakers.

How this reciever is set up is there are left and right A and left and right B Only one 8 ohm speaker should be attached per outlet. if you exceed that your driving the channel at a much lower resistance then the units designed for and the channel will burn up.. Oh it might last a short time but bet your last dollar it will burn up the channel if you over load it.



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What about a niles switch box ?

TECHMAN IS WRIGHT BUT IFF YOU MUST USE MORE SPEAKERS USE A 1 INTO 4 SWITCH BOX.
WHEN USEING A STEREO AMP YOU SHOULD ONLY USE 2 SPEAKERS FOR BEST SOUND.
REMEMBER WHEN YOU LISTEN TO A LIVE BAND THEY ARE IN FRONT OF YOU NOT AROUND YOU.

HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL.

CABLE GUY.

i have a similar issue...i have a decent sound system, mix and matched....by that i mean, i run a cable from my laptop, to a mixing board, then from there i run 2 cables to my stereo system, which is hooked to 2 speakers....basic....but i have 2 more speakers that the wires from each speaker are split to another 2 subwoofer enclosure...would 2 splitters do me fine if i do so decide to hook up the last combination to the stereo?

The suggestion is correct for Amps designed to run at 8 ohms. If you amp, like the Onkyo 8511 that I was attempting to search on, is capable of driving 4 ohms, then go for it.