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Old 04-21-08, 06:31 PM   #6 (Link)
 
superchad
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Re: NEED HELP!!!


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eugovector wrote: View Post
Nope, that will drop the impedance load, don't do that. Find your aux out, tape out, or something to that effect. Buy a long RCA cord from monoprice.com and a small amp like this:
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/show...number=300-958
or for a little more money, get an entry level receiver from shoponkyo.com

Good luck.
In regards to the first statement,
That is only half right, that would be the results if you ran speakers in PARALLEL but if you had say 4Ohm speakers you could wire them in series which would double the impedence to 8ohms so there are a COUPLE ways to do this but ultimately better options.
Here us a quick example of series wire for extra speaker:
When you wire in series you go positive of reciever or amp to speaker 1 positve then from speaker 1 negative to speaker 2 positive then speaker 2 negative back into reciever negative. I used this form or wireing for my seat bass resonators in my theater because I needed to raise the ohm load to lower my amps output so not to blow units and it worked great


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