Bookshelves WITH floorspeakers?

ccsitdown

Hi all,

Rookie question. I recently upgraded from a pair of Polk T-15 bookshelf speakers to a pair of Monitor60 series II floor speakers. I was considering wiring up the bookshelves as rear speakers for films and the like. Is there anything wrong with this, as long as I'm not going past where I would have normally taken them? I use an Onkyo TX-8050 amp.

Thanks for your expertise and suggestions!

CC

Theheadsn

Rear speakers can be pretty much any types you like. I've known people who use full sized speakers as rears. It all depends on your space and what works for you. I have a 7.1 set up, my sides are FXiA6's and I have a set of in ceiling speakers for the 6 and 7 channel. The way the room was laid out I was limited. Still sounds great. I think you'll do fine

Upstatemax

Nothing wrong with it.

Hook them up and see what YOU think!

Enjoy the system.

ccsitdown

Thanks, guys! Just wanted to make sure that there was no risk to them running them as B speakers when the front speakers are so much stronger. If not, I'll give it a go!

Nightfall

No, that's not going to work the way you think it will. You need to get at least a 5.1 AVR for that. Also I don't know the impedance of the speakers in question or how the A/B is wired on that Onkyo but there is a chance you could drop the impedance too low.

Nightfall

I see that Onkyo is only 80 watts @ 8 ohm and weighs barely 20 pounds. Be careful if you're going to try it anyway. It will probably be okay but if you're going to crank it up I'd shut the "B" speakers off.

Upstatemax

Ahhh, this is a STEREO receiver...

I was under the assumption that this was a multichannel receiver.

Then Nightfall is correct, it will not work the way you want.

tonyb

ccsitdown wrote: »

Hi all,

Rookie question. I recently upgraded from a pair of Polk T-15 bookshelf speakers to a pair of Monitor60 series II floor speakers. I was considering wiring up the bookshelves as rear speakers for films and the like. Is there anything wrong with this, as long as I'm not going past where I would have normally taken them? I use an Onkyo TX-8050 amp.

Thanks for your expertise and suggestions!

CC

You have a stereo receiver, so for movies running the front and back speakers will give you the exact same sound out of the back as with the fronts. Not good for surround sound. Using both A and B speakers, don't push it too hard, but other than that, yeah....you can use it that way but I don't know why you'd want to.

Get yourself a good surround sound receiver, for movies it makes all the difference.