Can you use 7.1 receiver with 5 speakers

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Thread starter nb79 Start date Oct 30, Hi, I am looking at buying a 7. Reason for buying the 7. Will it be fine if i only connect 5 speakers?

Will I still recieve a good audio experience? ParadigmDawg Audioholic Overlord. Yes that is fine. The surround back effects will just be sent to the surround speakers. Adam Audioholic Jedi. You'll be just fine with five speakers. You'd just set up the receiver to not use the surround back channels.

I was told by one person that the sound coming from surround sound speakers hooked up to the left and right inputs would be better for music, whereas hooking the speakers up to the back inputs would be better for sound effects when watching movies. Is this correct? Given that there are no recordings in 7. Hook the surround speakers up to the surround left and right inputs of the receiver. Set the surround back speakers to "none.

Thanks a bunch! I'd not. Odds are that when you connect another pair of speakers to the same terminal as another, the total impedance will be lowered, probably to lower than most amps can handle. Of course, if you have a "B" speaker terminal, this might be a half-arsed solution since it would reproduce either the two stereo channels or the two front channels.

RTFM for more info on this and see where this leads. Running to speakers off one terminal can be done. Not recommended though because you will most likely want to listen to your system loud and your receiver will not beable to produce the power needed because of the ohm load. Your amp will see two 8ohm speakers now as a 4ohm load. You can however run them in series very easily. Your amp will now see two 8ohm speakers as a 16ohm load.

You will have to raise your speaker levels after because they will be lower. Add an Amp The best way to do this is to add an amp. You can wire your surrounds and use the pre-outs at the same time. Of course you will be getting the exact same sound out of each set of speakers.

It won't truly be 7. And it won't truly be 6. Originally Posted by mgripy. Like previous wire in series. As to your other question, since what you're doing is fairly unusual, and won't really add anything and nobody else has bothered with it, the audiable results will be unpredictable. I won't do the math for ya I can't but here's some things to think about.

I think you can do the math to come out with an approximate answer. Also, having two speakers in series does funky things to the impedance curve and this will affect the sound somewhat. Try it and see how it sounds. At least you can feel safe in that your receiver is not gonna blow up. What are you hoping for out of this experiment? If you're looking for better sound, I doubt that you'll get it.

As said before, wiring two speakers in series is going to throw screwy impedance loads at your receiver. The imaging will probably get all screwed up. Your receiver will have to work harder to drive two additional speaker loads. Unless the speakers are of the same design, you'll be mixing different vocal characteristics. The ONLY thing that I can think of that would be a benefit would be in filling the back end of a very large room with sound.

I would think that would be a step up in quantity, NOT quality. Good luck, but I wouldn't expect great results.