Re: Sonos speaker wiring

["Richard" <rich_lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Put them in series, with identical speakers its fine, what you often
see is people putting different ones in series, and then the impedance
characteristics of them add together and you end up with that screwing up
the freq responce of both, with speakers having huge peaks near the
crossover frequancy this can cause the other one to get a massive peak in
its response around there.



----- Original Message -----
From: Malcolm Surgenor
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Sonos speaker wiring



I'd like to extend my Sonos system by running another set of speakers off
one of the ZP100s. Sonos support site says it can be done; i.e.

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The Sonos ZonePlayer can support any speaker impedance between 4 and 16
Ohms
so it is possible to wire two 8 Ohm speakers in parallel (resulting in a
total impedance of 4 Ohm's). Sonos does not recommend wiring speakers in
series as it will result in poor sound quality. DO NOT attempt to wire 4
Ohm
speakers in parallel to the ZonePlayer
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However I have two problems with this. The existing ceiling speakers (KEF
Ci100QR) are 4ohm and I was contemplating putting the same speakers in the
room next door until I read the support comments. Is there anything that
can be done to sort the impedance?
Secondly I want to switch the speakers if possible - I was looking for a
wall switch to do this but cannot find one. Any pointers? Also ideally I'd
like to have the switch do room A or room B or rooms A and B. At a push I
may accept a wall switch that just does room A or room B (which may solve
my
impedance problem?).
Thoughts?
.


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