Re: Speakers in Series or Parallel?

Okay, so I have received and installed the Russound speaker switch. It works pretty well. The only complaints I have is that speaker wire connectors could be a bit larger to more easily connect larger gauge speaker wire. It seems though that this is a common complaint I read in customer reviews of many different speaker switches. The other thing I have noticed is that I have experienced some amount of reduction in speaker volume with the switch. I adusted the receiver output upward on my front channels which has brought the system back to balanced...

Re: Speakers in Series or Parallel?

Thanks for the response PM650. I actually had started to think that no one had any opinion on my question, or maybe it was a just a dumb question with an obvious response... Any way your post makes sense.

I have done some more research since I made the post, and I have established that my front channels are also 8 Ohm speakers. I have actually decided on a different speaker switch though. I am going with a Russound speaker switch that has impedance matching. Impedance matching seems to be the safest solution with the best performance....

I have a Dennon AVR57 receiver which is about 10 years old. It only has one set of front channel preouts & hence no A/B speaker switch. It does have A & B surround speaker preouts, and I currently have my new outside speakers hooked up to the B surrounds. This of course has some draw backs like difficult volume control and my neighbors know what movies I am watching .

So, since the receiver still works like it's new, and I do not want to replace it I have decided that the best solution is to install a 2 way speaker switch on my front channels. My intention is to be able...