Dual Rti8 question

Jer_ry
Jer_ry Posts: 118
edited January 2006 in Speakers
I was wondering if it was possible to run 4 rti6's as mains. One on top of the other and jump a connection from one to the other?
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited January 2006
    That will lower your resistance to 4ohms. If your amp can handle it, you're fine.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited January 2006
    Forget about it. Just buy some floorstanders.
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  • BjornB17
    BjornB17 Posts: 752
    edited January 2006
    PolkThug wrote:
    That will lower your resistance to 4ohms. If your amp can handle it, you're fine.

    considering those speakers can go down to about 4 ohms during normal use, having them in parallel would mean his amp would be seeing 2 ohms. Bad idea!!

    Just use a 5 channel receiver and connect them to the FL, FR, RL, and RR outlets and use 5 channel stereo.
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited January 2006
    As long as his amp can handle a 4 ohm load it should be fine. Most 4 and 6 ohm speakers can dip that low anyways, so if his receiver can handle a regular 4 ohm speaker it should be okay. Not sure if it'll sound any good but that's a different question ;)

    If you do do it make sure to flip the top one upside down so that the tweeters are closer together helping with any phase issues that might occur...
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  • BjornB17
    BjornB17 Posts: 752
    edited January 2006
    michael_w wrote:
    As long as his amp can handle a 4 ohm load it should be fine. Most 4 and 6 ohm speakers can dip that low anyways, so if his receiver can handle a regular 4 ohm speaker it should be okay. Not sure if it'll sound any good but that's a different question ;)

    If you do do it make sure to flip the top one upside down so that the tweeters are closer together helping with any phase issues that might occur...

    flip an rti8 upside down?
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited January 2006
    Jer_ry wrote:
    possible to run 4 rti6's as mains.
    I think it was a typo in the thread title...
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited January 2006
    Now that I think about it, for the amount of improvement in sound quality you'll get (not much) by using two pairs of RTi6's you could get a much nicer speaker with that extra cash thrown towards the extra pair. Check out some other speakers in the price range of two pairs of RTi6's before you go ahead and blow the cash.
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  • BjornB17
    BjornB17 Posts: 752
    edited January 2006
    michael_w wrote:
    I think it was a typo in the thread title...

    I think you're right! :eek:
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  • Jer_ry
    Jer_ry Posts: 118
    edited January 2006
    Wow i didnt even relize that. Incase you already didnt know yeah i meant twin 6's NOT 8's. I am going to get 6's for my mains with my csi3 and every now and then you can get a really good deal on ebay for 6's. Since i would already have a pair didnt know if it would be a good idea to snag another pair and stack em for a cost efficient upgrade! Not sure about ohm's and all that but it would have been on a HK avr435.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited January 2006
    You aren't going to add any quality. It's going to sound louder but other then that you won't get diddly. A couple of nice speakers don';t sound good as 1 great speaker. Save your cash and upgrade something better in your system.
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