Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] how to hook 2 sets od speakers up to my system?

2007-11-01 Thread Murph
Mark Lanctot;239222 Wrote: But this is still not a good thing to do if you can avoid it. Heat output and power consumption will both increase, but distortion increases too, and the volume point at which distortion will become audible decreases. Also an 8 ohm speaker is not truly 8 ohms

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] how to hook 2 sets od speakers up to my system?

2007-10-31 Thread Mark Lanctot
Murph;239210 Wrote: Well, I might have some bad data here but both speakers are 8 ohm so together create 4 ohm. Your Amp claims to have 4 ohm capability so you are probably OK in hooking these up in parallel. But this is still not a good thing to do if you can avoid it. Heat output and

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] how to hook 2 sets od speakers up to my system?

2007-10-30 Thread alZmtbr
Why not sell the JBL's and buy a matching sub-woofer from BW?? The 'easy' way is to just bind both set of speakers to the single set of speaker jacks and have a listen! Going separate Amps (splitting at the pre-outs?) will lead you down a path of maddening trying to match levels, gain, etc, etc.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] how to hook 2 sets od speakers up to my system?

2007-10-30 Thread Pat Farrell
alZmtbr wrote: The 'easy' way is to just bind both set of speakers to the single set of speaker jacks and have a listen! If you have two sets of hard to drive speakers, this is a great way to buy a new amp. Wiring two sets in parallel halves the impedence. If its low to begin with, it gets cut

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] how to hook 2 sets od speakers up to my system?

2007-10-29 Thread morrillt
Ok i have 2 sets of speakers 1 set of bookshelf BW 602 ($500) and one set of JBL s310 floorstanding huge speakers. JBL speakers have good lows but crappy highs / mids. Bw has amazing mid / highs IMO. How can i combine it so that the lows go to the JBL'S? I currently have a NAD 320BEE amp