codyaaron2 Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 I am new to all of this stuff first of all. If i get a receiver that says 75 watts per speaker and I have a Carver 500 wat amp can I use the carver amp to boost up the watts per speaker? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael hurd Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 If I think you mean " can you add watts together ?" NO. Under no circumstances hook two amplifiers to the same speaker at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mas Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 Yes, very simply, by taking the pre-amp out of the receiver and feeding it into the input of the amp you will have available the channel output of that amplifier and (if the amplifier output is greater than the speaker rating) you may employ an amount up to the power rating of the speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjrbass Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 If your receiver has a preamplifier outputs you could use them to feed your Carver power amplifier input section. The net effect is that you will have the maximum of the Carver amp. Like Michael said, you cannot combine the power outputs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groomlakearea51 Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 You can also "cascade" amps but not speakers. Example: CD/player hooks to amp#1 via the Tape-1 playback inputs, and you have 2 pairs of speakers attached to that amp; Now, by using amp #1's tape record outputs, provided the amp can "switch" the output to "tape deck-2" (tape copy function) you can "cascade" that signal to amp#2's Tape-1 playback inputs, and now you have 2 more pairs of speakers going with amp #2, and so on. The key is the output from the CD player. You must make sure that the signal from the CD player is not "clipping" or "going over" 0 dB on the vue meters or LED bars. Best and safest way to cascade to multiple amps (thus multiple speakers...) is to use a mixer that has several line outputs at the 250 mV range which is what the tape deck circuitry operates at. Example: CD player goes to mixer; output is to 2 or 3 amps via their "tape play" circuits. Thus with 2 pairs of speakers per amp, you could have (provided the speakers do not have a combined impedance below what the factory calls for) 6 pairs of speakers from 3 amps, all playing the same CD.... In lieu of a mixer, you can use equalizers which generally can feed tape decks on their own. Since the output is 250 mV, the receiving amps just "see" that signal as coming from a tape deck. But as pointed out, you CANNOT cascade the speakers, or have 2-3 amps with their speaker wires all connected to drive a pair of speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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