Multi-room speaker set up

[Walnut]

Hi,

I'm looking for some advice, I have an AV receiver (Sony DH790) (6-16 ohm), 145w and I have 2 sets of bookshelf speakers, Q Acoustics 3020i (6 ohm 50-75W) and Klipsch R-40M (8 ohm 50w ). I would like to put the speakers in different rooms being able to play the same source both together or just one location. I had looked at a speaker switch from QED ( SS40) which has 4 outputs, but it would wire the speakers in parallel giving a less than 4 ohm impedance, much lower than the 6ohm rating of the receiver.
Is there a series switch someone could recommend which would work ? or some other set up advice?

thanks

 

[Eppie]

Hi,

I'm looking for some advice, I have an AV receiver (Sony DH790) (6-16 ohm), 145w and I have 2 sets of bookshelf speakers, Q Acoustics 3020i (6 ohm 50-75W) and Klipsch R-40M (8 ohm 50w ). I would like to put the speakers in different rooms being able to play the same source both together or just one location. I had looked at a speaker switch from QED ( SS40) which has 4 outputs, but it would wire the speakers in parallel giving a less than 4 ohm impedance, much lower than the 6ohm rating of the receiver.
Is there a series switch someone could recommend which would work ? or some other set up advice?

thanks

Have a look through the manual on page 22. I had a quick look at the back panel of the AVR and I noticed that the main L+R speaker terminals say FRONT A and the Surround Back speaker terminals say (FRONT B / BI-AMP). Page 22 shows the FRONT B speakers in another room. You can use the speaker button on the front of the AVR to select SPKA, SPKB or SPK A+B. You will also need to program the speaker connections in the setup menu so that the AVR knows that they are speaker B and not surround back.

 

[Walnut]

Hi Eppie,

thanks for your reply, you make a good point and something I had forgotten as actually I want 3 speakers not 2 switched, as I have surround speakers to go into the AVR as well (I have 5.1 speakers from an old surround home cinema device), I think I had thought the 5.1 would all slot into the clamp fittings and the other speakers (bookshelf) into the banana plugs (FL & FR).
I already have the issue that the surround satellite speakers are only 3 ohms, I could get around that by adding two additional satellite speakers in series to make them a safe impedance.

(I should really check my AVR and all my speakers to give a proper picture and thus question of help creating the set up).