Hello All and help!!
I have for years used a Sony 5.1 surround sound amp to run my home cinema and CD stereo music, to a pair of Eltax floorstanders, so I stwich from DVD, to CD and back again. The 5.1 is great, but the stereo has not been wonderful. I have now bought myself another full stereo system (Camabridge Audio AMP(2 channel only), CD and some fantastic Wharfedale floorstanders(biwired). The sound is great for the stereo, very happy ... but .... I want to use these floorstanders as my front speakers for the surround sound. How should I wire them up and is it safe to do this?
The Cambridge amp is biwired to the speakers, at the moment the Sony 5.1 is single wired to my old Eltax floorstanders, therefore I have two sets of speakers side by side, it does not look good! Can I simple run a set of speaker cables from my Sony 5.1 amp to the terminals on the Wharfedales, so that essentially, the speakers are connected to two different amps. I guess I'll have to make sure that these amps are not both on and feeding at the same time? Is this dangerous to the speakers? Or should I disconnect the cables into the speakers from one amp, when I want to listern to the other?
Just to add to the complication, the Wharfedales are biwired to the Stereo amp (Cambridge), so if I was connecting the 5.1 (Sony) amp, would I have to biwire this amp too?
Sorry, long question, but I'm a bit scared to have ago in case I blow something! Thanks in advance. Oz
I have for years used a Sony 5.1 surround sound amp to run my home cinema and CD stereo music, to a pair of Eltax floorstanders, so I stwich from DVD, to CD and back again. The 5.1 is great, but the stereo has not been wonderful. I have now bought myself another full stereo system (Camabridge Audio AMP(2 channel only), CD and some fantastic Wharfedale floorstanders(biwired). The sound is great for the stereo, very happy ... but .... I want to use these floorstanders as my front speakers for the surround sound. How should I wire them up and is it safe to do this?
The Cambridge amp is biwired to the speakers, at the moment the Sony 5.1 is single wired to my old Eltax floorstanders, therefore I have two sets of speakers side by side, it does not look good! Can I simple run a set of speaker cables from my Sony 5.1 amp to the terminals on the Wharfedales, so that essentially, the speakers are connected to two different amps. I guess I'll have to make sure that these amps are not both on and feeding at the same time? Is this dangerous to the speakers? Or should I disconnect the cables into the speakers from one amp, when I want to listern to the other?
Just to add to the complication, the Wharfedales are biwired to the Stereo amp (Cambridge), so if I was connecting the 5.1 (Sony) amp, would I have to biwire this amp too?
Sorry, long question, but I'm a bit scared to have ago in case I blow something! Thanks in advance. Oz
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