Parallel/Series Impedance

[rborder]

Hello-

Quick question. I am using 2 Heresy HIP's as the center

channel in my home theater. Right now, I am taking the mono

center channel, splitting it upstream of a stereo amp, and then running

them in "stereo".

My amp is bridgeable. So, it seems like a cleaner way to go,

might be to bridge the amp, feed it the mono center channel signal, and

then used the bridged amp to drive both speakers with the same signal.

Is the right way to do this to just piggy-back the banana plugs, at the

speaker) and run the speakers in parallel? What is the impedance

(they're 8 ohm speakers) that the amp would see (4 ohms?).

I've got the exact same situation with my subwoofer...

Thanks-

[DRBILL]

I asked the same question directly to Klipsch customer service several years ago, and for the same reason.

"NEVER try to run Klipsch speakers in series. Parallel is fine."

Try them with one amplifier at 4 ohms and see what you get. It might be plenty for a center. If not, strap the other one on.

DRBILL

[rborder]

Bridged, my center amp is 915w (Crown PSA-2) into 8 ohms. Into 4,

I think it's near 1400w. I think it will be enough [],

will just have to reset the gain adjustments, at the pre-amp, to

re-balance everything.

[WMcD]

EDIT: Please disregard what I wrote, and now edit out of existence. I see it is wrong in that I did not take into account that bridging amps also take one input and feed it to both amps, even if one is inverted.

I may try something like what I described with my McIntosh set up which does allow inversion of a channel.

Sorry,

Gil

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