Independent speaker A/B volume on Yamaha RX-V661

[withanx]

Hi,

I feel pretty silly reading the manual and not being able to figure this out, but I have a media center pc hooked up to a Yamaha RX-V661 receiver. I have a full surround system upstairs with large speakers, and I want to set up 2 small stereo bookshelf speakers downstairs to mirror the sound for parties. This is all working fine, but I can't figure out how to increase the output to just the speakers on speaker b since they're smaller and less efficient than my large floorstanding speakers on A.

The manual for my amp:
manualnguide.com/dl/5854/

Not familiar with the terminology in the manual, so I'm not really sure what to look for to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[TLS Guy]

Hi,

I feel pretty silly reading the manual and not being able to figure this out, but I have a media center pc hooked up to a Yamaha RX-V661 receiver. I have a full surround system upstairs with large speakers, and I want to set up 2 small stereo bookshelf speakers downstairs to mirror the sound for parties. This is all working fine, but I can't figure out how to increase the output to just the speakers on speaker b since they're smaller and less efficient than my large floorstanding speakers on A.

The manual for my amp:
manualnguide.com/dl/5854/

Not familiar with the terminology in the manual, so I'm not really sure what to look for to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated!

The answer is you can't.

The other issue is you should not use both A & B speakers at the same time, especially for parties. A & B use the same amps. So when you select A & B the impedance is halved. If speaker B has a higher impedance than A it will get little of the power.

A & B speakers should only be used together at very low power, if at all.