Doubling up on Terminals

[deadanddrawn]

Would it be a parrellel or series circuit if took the postives of two speakers, twisted them together and attached them to one terminal and then did the same thing with the negatives?

 

[Nomo]

If you mean hooking up two speakers to the same terminal they would be in parallel. This cuts the impedance the receiver is seeing by half. (8 ohm + 8 ohm = 4 ohm). Generally a bad idea.

 

[deadanddrawn]

If you mean hooking up two speakers to the same terminal they would be in parallel. This cuts the impedance the receiver is seeing by half. (8 ohm + 8 ohm = 4 ohm). Generally a bad idea.

Is there any way i could hook the speakers up to the same terminal where they would be in a series?

 

[mtrycrafts]

Is there any way i could hook the speakers up to the same terminal where they would be in a series?

What are you trying to do? Are you asking about 2 speaker system or just two speaker drivers?
If you put them in series, you have 16 ohms.

 

[highfihoney]

the best way to run 2 sets of speakers from the same 2 channel amp is to buy a simple speaker selector,NILES makes some very good models with selectable ohmages & a few with gain control to level match each pair.

niles speaker selector.
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?accstwek&1145750198

 

[deadanddrawn]

the best way to run 2 sets of speakers from the same 2 channel amp is to buy a simple speaker selector,NILES makes some very good models with selectable ohmages & a few with gain control to level match each pair.

niles speaker selector.
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?accstwek&1145750198

Would i be able to run all four at once? Im considering just buying a cheap amp for the bookshelves i wanna get. Nady makes a good 120w @ 8 ohm for merely 120 dollars.

 

[W_Harding]

Your Carver M1.0t should be able to drive both pairs of speakers in parallel without any problems.

 

[deadanddrawn]

Your Carver M1.0t should be able to drive both pairs of speakers in parallel without any problems.

I have 6 ohm towers and i want 8 ohm bookshelves. That would be a imp of 3.4 My carvers min is 4.

 

[mulester7]

I have 6 ohm towers and i want 8 ohm bookshelves. That would be a imp of 3.4 My carvers min is 4.

.....DeadAndDrawn, it's good we're talking this out fully before you go and buy anything.....I thought about your situation the last couple of days, and I don't know if W. Harding has ever owned a Carver M-1.0t, but it sounds like he has, and I believe I agree with him it's worth trying the four in parallel even at an ohmage load of 3.5 paralleling 6 and 8.....

.....I remember one time a friend brought over a couple of large Advents, 4 ohm speakers, and one of the M-1.0t's I had, powered them "quite" handily, and the amps are presently kicking 4 ohm cylinder subs quite well for my son-in-law....if you wire your fronts and rears in series, you're going to have exposed wires running everywhere to and from....get your rear speakers and try them in parallel with the fronts, paralleling them at the amp terminals....since the purchase of the rears is a given, that's going to happen either way.....

.....you may need L-pads for balance, or take HiFiHoney's suggestion for a switching center, although with two pairs of speakers running off the switching center engaged at the same time with one two channel amp, I don't see that you could make any difference as to the ohmage load, but you would have gain control for balance as HiFi said....I would personally do the L-pads and come out cheaper.....

.....if you feel the need after trying this paralleling using whatever method of balancing, get the inexpensive amp you mentioned, but it's probably not going to be the same quality for 120 bucks as the Carver....one thing, I said you will lose a little low-end wiring in series, but, you're going to get a little "more" low-end than normal with paralleling, as the amp will be shooting around 4 ohm bullets....you said you didn't listen at loud levels anyway, try the parallel thing with the M-1.0t first....let us know what you try and the results....shoot, ya' never know, I may have winged my way through another one.....