Is it possible? some help please

[admin_exported]

afternoon

I currently have a Yahaha RX-V357 AV Reciever which is set up for 5.1 in my lounge

I live in an old terraced house which the lounge goes into the dining room (approx 14' X 38') very long and thin

is there a device allowing my to run some extra speakers - say floorstanders - so I can have sound in my dining room aswell

I've heard that if i run 2 sets of speakers from 1 speaker socket my amp/speakers will explode (or get damaged)

help please - if any of this has made sense

 

[The_Lhc]

No, your amp looks like it has connections for two sets of front speakers, (A and B), so you can run some speaker cable from the amp to the dining room speakers and switch between the two sets on the amp.

 

[Anonymous]

yeah mate your right

i've got an A/B button on the front - but switches betwwen speakers, they're not on at the same time

i was looking to play them at the same time - and maybe have a device that would switch off the extra one when I wanted to

do these things exist?

 

[Sorreltiger]

I think you have an extra set of stereo speaker outputs, thus 'A' and 'B'. One of these is linked to the surround set, whilst the other is just stereo (I think - I'm just going on what I can see online without reading the manual) .

You should be able to select 'A' and 'B' to hear all the speakers at once. That would be fine, but - as you've been advised - I wouldn't connect two pairs of speakers to the same outputs!

 

[The_Lhc]

Sorreltiger:
I think you have an extra set of stereo speaker outputs, thus 'A' and 'B'. One of these is linked to the surround set, whilst the other is just stereo (I think - I'm just going on what I can see online without reading the manual)

Yes the Bs will be stereo, but if you're listening to 2-channel music that shouldn't make any difference.

You should be able to select 'A' and 'B' to hear all the speakers at once. That would be fine,

Yes, I'd have thought that was possible, my 12-year old Sony can do it. Otherwise you'll need a speaker switch.

but - as you've been advised - I wouldn't connect two pairs of speakers to the same outputs!

There isn't actually anything wrong with doing that, provided you don't bring the impedance down below what the amp can handle, it looks from the back panel that the amp doesn't like anything less than 6 Ohm loads, so you'll struggle to find 2 pairs of speakers that will comply with that, however if the amp could take 4 Ohm loads you could get two pairs of 8 Ohm speakers and wire them to the same terminals without any trouble (this is a supported arrangement for Sonos's ZP120 for example).