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Couple Questions (lemmy.ml)

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If I put 2 8 ohm woofers in parallel, can I run them with a 4 ohm crossover and tweeter?
Is it a good idea to to use a bunch of amps instead of a single receiver for surround sound? Good analogue receivers are expensive and I don't have enough speakers to fill all the channels yet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the surround source? Like, is it tv, dvd player, computer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a desktop PC with mostly unbalanced analogue audio outputs. Eventually I plan to get a dac and run from pc to that to amp(s), but rn I have my priorities set on building my output.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah ok. It would certainly be a bit more awkward with multiple amps but doable, and probably better than nothing, at least until you get something more dedicated for it. Once the amps are set, you could just use the pc volume as a master.

My main source is also pc, but I run toslink (fiber optic) to my amp, it does the rest for surround. I find it sounds way better than when I used to run analog signals to the amp in my opinion.