Speaker help to go with 2000w 2ch amp

[RufCut]

I am in need of some help with speaker advise for a small home cinema room setup using a 2000w 2 channel amp (1000w ea channel). I have the projector, amplifier and comfy seating I now just need me speaker set up! Ideally I would like tower speakers BUT am unsure of how the ohms work in setting up and as I have inly 2 channels i have to be careful not to overload my amp by doing something stupid. The amp runs 4 ohms and 8 ohms. I have researched a set of tower speakers at 600w max ea 4 ohms. Can I run 4 of these from the 2000w amp without destroying sound or the amp?? I know a very small bit about parallel and in series but not enough to give it a try or brave enough to try should I say. I could go out and get a home theatre system to make things a lot easier BUT I need to use my 2000w amp and not waste all that power wattage. Any advise will be great

and thanks

 

[his dudeness]

I am in need of some help with speaker advise for a small home cinema room setup using a 2000w 2 channel amp (1000w ea channel). I have the projector, amplifier and comfy seating I now just need me speaker set up! Ideally I would like tower speakers BUT am unsure of how the ohms work in setting up and as I have inly 2 channels i have to be careful not to overload my amp by doing something stupid. The amp runs 4 ohms and 8 ohms. I have researched a set of tower speakers at 600w max ea 4 ohms. Can I run 4 of these from the 2000w amp without destroying sound or the amp?? I know a very small bit about parallel and in series but not enough to give it a try or brave enough to try should I say. I could go out and get a home theatre system to make things a lot easier BUT I need to use my 2000w amp and not waste all that power wattage. Any advise will be great

and thanks

what is this 2000 wat amp,would help.

 

[RufCut]

I guess that would have been helpful:- it's a Skytec SPL 2000. So not a top end make!!!

 

[Anderson]

Are you looking PA speakers or HIFI/Home Cinema?

 

[RufCut]

To be fair the smaller the better as there isn't a great deal of room hence tower speakers as they are about the right size to give a good enough punch. I was going to go down the PA route but for max output would mean big speakers or lots of £ for small but powerful!!!!!

 

[jonathanRD]

Whats your budget for speakers?

What tower speakers did you research?

Did you purchase your amplifier to use for home cinema? and is it new and can you return it?

Is it mainly home cinema and tv you want this system for?

 

[RufCut]

Amp was originally purchased for a PA set up and purchased 2 years back and never used (well once to test if all in working order) so to be honest I would like it to do both for PA (to use along side with my DJ3 setup) and Home Cinema. I was looking at spending about £200 on a 2nd hand home theatre system but decided against as I want to use the amp I already have so £200 is the max I would spend. Skytronic 1200w bass reflex was the speakers I was checking out. I know these are not a well named brand and it was the wattage I was researching.

 

[jonathanRD]

The Skytronic amp will drive two sets of the Skytronic tower speakers (I think you refer to).

It will work, but as the amp is a 2 channel amp, you are only going to get a stereo (2 channel ) sound from each set of speakers for home cinema.

Typically for home cinema you would have a home cinema receiver capable of at least processing the sound into front, centre and rear speakers (surround sound) plus a subwoofer. This surround sound package then makes watching films a much more enjoyable experience.

Essentially you want to use a 2 channel PA amp and matching speakers that will work, but won't come close to what a home cinema receiver and surround speaker setup can achieve.