New setup, wiring questions
edbert
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Okay, for Christmas I will be assembling a surround sound system for the first time. Here's the list of things that I will be using
Monitor 40's - fronts
Monitor 30's - surrounds
CS1 - Center
PSW10 - Sub
Pioneer VSX 816 K/S - Receiver
The receiver is a 7.1 channel receiver rated at 110 watts per channel. I know that you can bi-amp the Monitor 40's and would really like to do that. According to the receiver manual, I can connect one set of speaker wires to the front channel and the other set to the "Surround Back" channel since the audio output is the same for these two channels. My question is, will I do damage to the speakers with 110 watts going to the highs and 110 watts going to the lows? Thanks for your help and I can't wait until two weeks from now when all this comes together.
Monitor 40's - fronts
Monitor 30's - surrounds
CS1 - Center
PSW10 - Sub
Pioneer VSX 816 K/S - Receiver
The receiver is a 7.1 channel receiver rated at 110 watts per channel. I know that you can bi-amp the Monitor 40's and would really like to do that. According to the receiver manual, I can connect one set of speaker wires to the front channel and the other set to the "Surround Back" channel since the audio output is the same for these two channels. My question is, will I do damage to the speakers with 110 watts going to the highs and 110 watts going to the lows? Thanks for your help and I can't wait until two weeks from now when all this comes together.
I know just enough to be dangerous, but don't tell my wife, she thinks I'm a genius. 
Pioneer VSX-816
Monitor 40's - fronts, bi-amped
Monitor 30's - surrounds
CS1 - center
PSW10 - I'll let you guess
Blue Jeans Cable - speaker cable
Daewoo 27 incher - one step up from a console
Sony Progressive scan DVD
XBOX
SOPA since 2008
Here's my stuff.
Pioneer VSX-816
Monitor 40's - fronts, bi-amped
Monitor 30's - surrounds
CS1 - center
PSW10 - I'll let you guess
Blue Jeans Cable - speaker cable
Daewoo 27 incher - one step up from a console
Sony Progressive scan DVD
XBOX
SOPA since 2008
Here's my stuff.
Comments
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As far as amplification goes and the potential for doing harm to speakers is concerned ... more power is better ( and less likely to cause trouble ) then less power ...
However, I'm surprised that the surround back channels would be getting the exact same signal in the same phase as the mains ...
After taking a quick look at the doc for the receiver ... it DOES appear that one of the uses ( and menu choices ) for surround back is to biamp the mains ...
MAKE SURE YOU REMOVE THE JUMPER between high and low terminals on the mains if you are going to do this ...
