What's the best way to hookup two CSi3's?

jcgriff
jcgriff Posts: 6
edited November 2007 in Speakers
If I had two CSi3 Centers and wanted to hook them up to a Onkyo TX-SR705 100 W (8 ohms, 20 Hz–20 kHz, 0.08%,2 channels driven, FTC) what would be the best way to do that? Would it be advisable as far as performance and sound quality was concerned?

I'm using a separate amp for the front RTi10's and will be using RTi A4's for surrounds, no rears.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,064
    edited November 2007
    Best way is one speaker per ch hooked up to your AVR. One main centre and one rear centre.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited November 2007
    Go the same route you did with your fronts....you have a preamp out for the center as well with the 705 ...use it with a mono amp stable @4ohms ( Just run the 2 centers in parallel off of the amp...Both centers @8 ohms will give you a 4ohm load to the amp) ...or if you have a stereo amp laying around just use an rca y adapter to feed the exact same center preamp signal to the amp.

    Either way would work fine...just be sure to re-do your levels calibration again.

    Then again , your 705 shows on the back panel as well as in the specs that 4 ohms per channel is fine .....so you could always just parallel them off of the 705's center output...the CSi3's are rated at 8ohms ...I would go separate amp like you did with your fronts though...
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,064
    edited November 2007
    With external amps si the only way I'd do it!
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  • JoshParsons84
    JoshParsons84 Posts: 565
    edited November 2007
    Why would you wanna have 2 center channels?
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