Denon speaker impedance Question

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Borabis

Enthusiast
Hi.
I have a Denon AVR-x1400h Receiver and in the manual it has three selections for speaker impedance. the default setting is 8 ohm,there is a 6 ohm selection and a 4 ohm selection. there is no physical switch ,you just have to press certain buttons before you hook up your speakers to enter the menu to change from the default 8 ohm setting.

I'm running the pioneer Andrew Jones SP-BS22-LR for my two front channels and the Pioneer SP-C22 center channel.These all have a rated Impedance of 6 ohms but as i understand it are not very demanding for receivers.

I have read that these options for speaker impedance are available only to achieve some sort of safety rating,but all the articles mention a physical switch not the software one the denon has and also they only mention having two settings available 4 or 8 ohm. not the three possibilities the denon has. I did as the manual suggested and changed the impedance to 6 ohms but wondering if this was the right thing to do.

Was wondering what any of you would suggest i set the impedance to. Thanks in advance.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Use the 8 ohm setting....if you search the site there's an article on it, but thats the short answer.
 
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Borabis

Enthusiast
Thank you for the quick response. I will set it back to the 8 ohm setting, initially i had the setting at 8 ohms because i didn't read the manual thoroughly before setting everything up.Changed it to 6 ohms after rereading it and seeing that section.
 
Verdinut

Verdinut

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