JoeJoeThe3rd 38 Posted October 17, 2020 So I have a quick question. If someone has a power amp say on the front sound stage. Your powering your left, right, and center With said power amp. Since that power amp is powering those speakers on the receiver the left, right, and center spots are open with no speakers wire going into them. Is it possible to plug in another left right and center to those open spots and basically have two sets of LCR and let the receiver power the second pair? Would this work, could it damage my receiver or would it even work and if so are there any reasons one wouldn’t want to do this? 🙏 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
babadono 6450 Posted October 17, 2020 So you are saying someone takes the pre out from an AVR to a separate power amp to run their main LCRs then hooks speakers up to the LCR outputs on the AVR? Yes it could be done but why? Run those other speakers in a different room? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
willland 3030 Posted October 17, 2020 6 hours ago, JoeJoeThe3rd said: So I have a quick question. If someone has a power amp say on the front sound stage. Your powering your left, right, and center With said power amp. Since that power amp is powering those speakers on the receiver the left, right, and center spots are open with no speakers wire going into them. Is it possible to plug in another left right and center to those open spots and basically have two sets of LCR and let the receiver power the second pair? Would this work, could it damage my receiver or would it even work and if so are there any reasons one wouldn’t want to do this? 🙏 I think when you are using the LCR preouts to connect to an outboard amp, it disables the AVR's LCR speaker terminals. Bill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeJoeThe3rd 38 Posted October 17, 2020 10 hours ago, willland said: I think when you are using the LCR preouts to connect to an outboard amp, it disables the AVR's LCR speaker terminals. Bill O does it ok. I want to try but don’t want to damage anything. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeJoeThe3rd 38 Posted October 17, 2020 16 hours ago, babadono said: So you are saying someone takes the pre out from an AVR to a separate power amp to run their main LCRs then hooks speakers up to the LCR outputs on the AVR? Yes it could be done but why? Run those other speakers in a different room? I thought it would be cool to have two sets of lcr. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CECAA850 28737 Posted October 18, 2020 19 hours ago, JoeJoeThe3rd said: I thought it would be cool to have two sets of lcr. Just use rca Ys at the preout. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Schu 4885 Posted October 18, 2020 parallel or series... you have to be careful. edit, I see you are using preouts with an external amp and want to add another set of speakers and let the receiver power them... I would think it would work since the signal is 'pre'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
babadono 6450 Posted October 18, 2020 3 hours ago, CECAA850 said: Just use rca Ys at the preout. Yes this will work also but another power amp will be needed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marvel 5311 Posted October 18, 2020 You can/will get all kind of phase, reponse anomalies. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnA 1060 Posted October 19, 2020 Unless your receiver removes the signal from the internal power amp, it will work and cause no harm. You may not like the sound. I'd use spare amps for Atmos or some other surround channels. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites