stacking speakers

aequitas

Was wondering how to go about stacking speakers for the fronts (4 speakers for the front, 2 left and 2 right). would it work to split the preout into 4 channels and then plug both sets of speakers into an amp. or should i plug one set into the amp and the other set into the receiver. or is there something else that needs to be done. Any ideas here would be appreciated, thanks.

okiepolkie

Three questions first:

What speakers?
What amplifier?
What receiver?

aequitas

speakers: lsi9s and jbl s310s
receiver: hk avr-235
amp: havent picked one yet, part of what will help me decide on an amp is what i find out here.

my thought process behind this is taht the jbls have 10" woofers in them and so i would like to keep that bass up there in the front and the lsi9s have the great mids and lows (their bass isnt bad, but they dont have 10" woofers either). im not too knowledgeable in how these all work, so maybe im just smoking something wanting to do this...or maybe my equipment needs to be much better, but anywho i thought i would throw the question out there.

okiepolkie

Ahh, now I remember your setup. Can't remember if you have a subwoofer though. If you do, bypass the JBL's all together and just the subwoofer for the lows. I think it will difficult to mix the JBL's with the Polk's, unless the tweeters are unhooked from the JBL's. Then you are basically using unpowered subwoofers in your setup(being that they need a separate amplifier).
If you are going to do this, you will want to drive your 9's with a separate amplifer, and your JBL's with the receiver(unless the JBL's are 4 ohm also). You would run the JBL's as large in your setup.

Don't know if my rambling has helped any, but those are my initial thoughts.

aequitas

yeah i was wondering how the jbl and the polk would mesh together. i started off with a jbl system and am slowly converting to polk after hearing my friends setup (goes by rnp614 on the forums). unfortuneately this is in process and is a bit of the expensive side so its a conversion that is going slow. but i digress..

i do have a sub, just a dayton 10", so perhaps for now ill just have the 9s as my fronts, the towers as my rears and then the sub should give me enough bass. thanks for the input okie.

okiepolkie

More than likely, the Dayton will sound better than the JBL's integrated into your system.

aequitas

cool beans, thanks