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MattD
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Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 01:02 pm:    Edit Post
I am currently setting up a whole house speaker system and have a 100 watt receiver operating at 8 ohms going out to 3 rooms. Two rooms will have four speakers, one will have 2. I was going to use Impedance matching volume controls; however, if each volume control is set at 8 ohms I am afraid that would make the final ohm load 2.6. Keep in mind that each volume control is going to feed into a passive audio distribution panel. Is this correct? If it is, can I increase the ohms at each swith to compensate?
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J. Vigne
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Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 10:00 pm:    Edit Post


It depends on the impedance of the speakers themself and whether you wire rooms in series or parallel. The better option is to use a multichannel amp that has enough channels for each system.



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