Freddmc
12-17-2006, 08:01 PM
I'm trying to help my daughter wire her house for stereo. She has purchased a Yamaha RX 797 receiver/amp along with Energy EAS series speakers as well as a Quest QLS4.1 Loudspeaker switcher. Three rooms have 2 single speakers while two rooms have a single Energy Speaker(it functions as two speakers). Each room has a volume control.
Originally the salesman told her that she should run one cable(2 conductor) to each volume control. The volume control has 4 input terminals and 4 output terminals. When I questioned the salesman some time ago on how to run two speakers off of the volume control he told me that I should run the speakers in parallel (in other words the positive cables from the two speakers should be joined together and the negative cables should be joined together)
Yesterday I again enquired as to the proper way to wire this and was told that I needed to have two cables(each with 2 conductors) going to each volume control in order to have both left and right channels. So I added one more cable to each run and I now have 4 wires going to each volume control and 2 wires going to each separate speaker from the volume control.
By adding the 4 additional wires I now have a problem where the wires from the Quest Switcher go into the wall. I installed a single gang electrical box to which I was going to install a faceplate that had 8 plugs on it. I now have 16 wires to plug in and can't install another electrical box.
Can someone tell me if I need 4 conductors to each volume control? Would I get the proper performance using 2 conductors and hooking the speakers in parallel.
I don't want to compromise the performance of the system.
Thanks in advance.
Fred Mc.
Originally the salesman told her that she should run one cable(2 conductor) to each volume control. The volume control has 4 input terminals and 4 output terminals. When I questioned the salesman some time ago on how to run two speakers off of the volume control he told me that I should run the speakers in parallel (in other words the positive cables from the two speakers should be joined together and the negative cables should be joined together)
Yesterday I again enquired as to the proper way to wire this and was told that I needed to have two cables(each with 2 conductors) going to each volume control in order to have both left and right channels. So I added one more cable to each run and I now have 4 wires going to each volume control and 2 wires going to each separate speaker from the volume control.
By adding the 4 additional wires I now have a problem where the wires from the Quest Switcher go into the wall. I installed a single gang electrical box to which I was going to install a faceplate that had 8 plugs on it. I now have 16 wires to plug in and can't install another electrical box.
Can someone tell me if I need 4 conductors to each volume control? Would I get the proper performance using 2 conductors and hooking the speakers in parallel.
I don't want to compromise the performance of the system.
Thanks in advance.
Fred Mc.