Am I cheap or what?
Recently purchased a pair of R15s from ABC Warehouse in order to use one of them as a center channel. I did, it sounded small. I then said "Hey, what if I use both of them?" I took that a step further and mounted them together in a rectangular formation to emulate the appearance of a center channel. They cost $72.08 on sale. It sounds and looks great and only the very discerning eye, or well my friends should I say cannot tell the difference. It was hell bolting them together through that small tweeter hole but when all was done I ended up with a perfect alignment. Only thing is the port holes are opposite (one up and one down). I put spikes on my R40s (front L&R), moved my R10s up to six feet high on the wall, spiked my Velodyne CHT8 ( a 22' by 15' carpeted floor on the second floor of the house) and all is sweet. All the Polk speakers match (without the grills mind you) with the exception of the R15s being a little more shiny. I only wonder if I might be damging my receiver by sending it a 4ohm load when combining the two R15s together. What do you guys think?
Panasonic SAHE200K 130 * 6 @ 6 ohms
Panasonic SAHE200K 130 * 6 @ 6 ohms
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Does your receiver get very hot? If it doesn't get overly hot and it doesn't say "Protect" or something like that and shut down then you should be ok.
On another topic - when you put two drivers close together then you have to watch out for dispersion issues. What that means is instead of the speaker radiating over a wide area, it shoots sound in a narrow beam, so if you plan on sitting anywhere other than dead center from in front of your tv, then you would be better off to stop being cheap and use a real center that was designed to sound better when off center. -
Originally posted by tony.king
It was hell bolting them together through that small tweeter hole but when all was done I ended up with a perfect alignment. Only thing is the port holes are opposite (one up and one down).
I am confused... can you take a pic and post the .jpeg?
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rs159, can't he remedy this by changing the phase on one of these speakers? I dunno how that would be accomplished, or exactly what it does, but hopefully someone can explain
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basicly it all depends on your reciever, frankly not knowing the reciever you cant really answer the ? . If its a good quality hk denon onkyo it can probly take it in a 4 ohm load at normal volumes. But if you do have a good reciever i would suggest a 16 ohm load and wire both speakers to it. a cheap sony or kenwood could burn out eitherway. never mind i just saw the end of your post. i leave the previous just for regular knowlege. the panasonic 200 is a good reciever and i would choose to run both spekers from the reciever on a 16 or 12 ohm load as aposed to the 4 or 3 ohm. basicly that means run the cables from each speaker to the reciever rather run from reciever to speaker to speaker to reciever. I hope this makes sense.
