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5 in ceiling speakers surround sound

  • 22 January 2018
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I am not familiar with some of the terminology like ohm so trying to make sure I do this right. I have 5 in ceiling speakers installed a connect amp and a play bar and subwoofer. From what I understand the rear two would be needed for surround sound. I don’t want to waste the front 3 so would like to use these for playing music when not used for surround sound. One option is to put 2 back speakers on its own connect amp and set up that way. But what about the front 3? Can I connect 3 speakers to an amp? I only see instructions for 2 or 4? As a second option I saw that I can hook up an impedance switch to turn off a pair of speakers. Can this be used to support what I want to do and therefore I only need one amp vs 2? But that still leaves my third middle speaker out ?

Finally I have 2 outdoor speakers I’d like to pair on an amp with 2 indoor. 2 indoor are 8ohm. The outdoor say 4 or 8? Outdoor power says 100 watts and the indoor says 120

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Hi there, Juliejean. Thanks for posting and welcome to the Community. While we may be able to give you resources and the Community may solicit their opinion, nothing beats having a home audio specialist go to your house and give a consultation. While it's great that you want to set up surrounds through a CONNECT:AMP. There are a few things to keep in mind. Check out this article that explains the process of using the CONNECT:AMP to power surround sound speakers.

To answer your question specifically:
What about the front 3?
The front three channels are already in place as the CONNECT:AMP can only be set up as surrounds for either a PLAYBAR or PLAYBASE.

Additionally, if you want to attach 4 speakers to the CONNECT:AMP note that all speakers need to have an impedance of 8 Ohms. Read more about this here.