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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:02 am Post subject: Stereo Receiver Overloads periodically w/ 4 new sets of Spea |
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Several months ago I had 4 sets of high quality in wall speakers
installed in my home by an electrician. Each set of speakers is in a
different room in the house with a separate volume control installed.
I have a "Multi-Room Speaker Selector" that the four sets of speaker
wires connect to and then the speaker selector is connected to my
Technics Receiver.
Periodically the system shuts down and triggers the overload message
on the receiver. I had the electrician back out several times and
they couldn't find anything wrong with what they wired.
I went out and purchased two different new high end receivers from
BestBuy and it made no difference as the overload was still
triggered. I purchased a new speaker selector and that only seemed to
make matters worse as the overload now triggers even quicker.
Any advice for what I can check? How can I determine/measure if there
is a short some where in all of the wiring?
Other suggestions?
Thanks!
Jamie |
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Richard Crowley
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Stereo Receiver Overloads periodically w/ 4 new sets of |
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<jdavidso_19711@yahoo.com> wrote ...
| Quote: | Periodically the system shuts down and triggers the overload message
on the receiver. I had the electrician back out several times and
they couldn't find anything wrong with what they wired.
Any advice for what I can check? How can I determine/measure if there
is a short some where in all of the wiring?
Other suggestions?
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Without knowing exactly what your "Multi-Room Speaker Selector"
is, it sounds very likely that you are simply overloading the amplifier.
Expecting it to drive four sets of speakers is a very tall order for
most
any amplifier except the type that are designed to drive many speakers.
And using separate volume controls for each room means that the
amplifier is trying to drive all four pairs at full-blast, and you are
wasting much/most of the power heating up the pads (assuming
that is what you are using since you didn't specify that either.) |
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Jamie
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: Re: Stereo Receiver Overloads periodically w/ 4 new sets of |
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On May 17, 12:20 am, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xp7rt.net> wrote:
| Quote: | jdavidso_19...@yahoo.com> wrote ...
Periodically the system shuts down and triggers the overload message
on the receiver. I had the electrician back out several times and
they couldn't find anything wrong with what they wired.
Any advice for what I can check? How can I determine/measure if there
is a short some where in all of the wiring?
Other suggestions?
Without knowing exactly what your "Multi-Room Speaker Selector"
is, it sounds very likely that you are simply overloading the amplifier.
Expecting it to drive four sets of speakers is a very tall order for
most
any amplifier except the type that are designed to drive many speakers.
And using separate volume controls for each room means that the
amplifier is trying to drive all four pairs at full-blast, and you are
wasting much/most of the power heating up the pads (assuming
that is what you are using since you didn't specify that either.)
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The "Multi-Room Speaker Selector" is a "SpeakerCraft S4dc". I have
another Stereo Speaker selector where the same issue hasppened. In my
previous home I had the exact same set-up with different high-end
speakers (same # of sets, same Receiver and volume controls) and I
never had a problem. Any recommendations on the best type of
amplifier that could handle?
Thanks again,
Jamie |
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