Advice

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I have BP 9080’s and an anthem A2 in a large concrete shop I do metal work in. 2 defiance x15’s and streaming tidal hi fi through a Marantz avr with HEOS. I want more of the sound, not more loud. I wanted to add 2 more BP 9080’s. How do I do this? I can trade in my A2 amp and the Marantz as it’s all fairly new, do people run double sets of towers? Can I wire them individually to my amp? I am ok getting a bigger amp for more money but trying to see if my idea is even worth chasing or is there a better way. I can’t place more speakers around the shop, the front is the only area that is safe, I love the sound I have but want more of it. Also is streaming hi fi via tidal and HEOS good quality or do I need to hook up a laptop and download higher quality? Sincerely, more money than brains

How do you expect to perceive sound quality in a concrete metalworking shop? The acoustics will mask any sense of quality. High SPL is the last thing you want- if anything, you want more speakers aimed at the work areas (if you actually want people who are using machines to listen to the music, rather than pay attention to what they're doing) and at a lower level, so the sound doesn't reflect and reverberate. You can have good sound, but it needs to be done right and high SPL with expensive speakers is far from what is needed.

Who is 'a guy' and why does he think he knows what he's talking about?

 

[pcosmic]

Well part of my conundrum is I’m running these preamp to an Anthem amp. So let me ask this. If I buy two more, would separate them from the other speakers to get spread, can I hook two towers via their own cable runs to the amp? Theoretically going from 8ohm to four ohm and losing some horsepower but I already have plenty. Will that kill an amp? Is it not advised?

You may be overthinking this. Your Marantz 7013 receiver is 125W/ch 2 channel driven. Your bp1080 speakers are 92ish db sensitive.
You would just plug the front 2 speakers into the front channel outputs on your receiver. You would plug the 2 additional speakers you get into the 2 surround outputs on your receiver. When you set it to 'multi-channel stereo', the same stereo signal will be sent to your 2 fronts and 2 surrounds. You may probably go deaf before your receiver runs out of power just driving these 4 speakers.. But, if you insist, you could run your receiver preouts for the 2 fronts into your 2 channel anthem amp (225 watts/ch) and let the receiver run your 2 surrounds.

Keep in mind, you wouldn't have to crank it up as much as you would with just 2 stereo speakers.

You could also get a 3 additional floorstander (plug it into the receiver's center channel output) and still play around with the 'multichannel stereo' setting or other DTS codecs, etc. Start with 4 speakers, play around with placement, etc and see how ya like it.

I personally have a Yamaha and the multi-channel stereo setting has a balance control for front speakers and rear/surround speakers. I can't remember if a Marantz had that additional tweak....