Hello,
I'm planning a setup for multiroom audio with Pi+HiFiBerry Amp+LMS
One of the rooms is a quite big one, is it possible to connect (for example) 4 or 6 ceiling speakers to the AMP?
If yes, are there things which i should consider or beware for?
Thnx for the support!
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HiFiBerry team If you wire these in parallel, the resulting impedance most likely will be too low. The speaker impedance should be minimal 4 Ohm. If you use 4 8 Ohm speakers, you can use 2 groups: 2 in parallel to the left and another two in parallel to the right channel. Don't use parallel 4 Ohm speakers as the resulting impedance would be 2 Ohm which is too low.
Best regards
Daniel -
Wikkes oke thnx, that means i should fully wire two speakers (4 wires) to the left and fully wire two speakers (4 wires) to the right?
And i should only use 8ohm speakers.. -
HiFiBerry team I'm not sure what you mean with "fully wire". You can connect 2 8 Ohm speakers in parallel to an output.
Best regards
Daniel -
sdspieg I currently have a regular (non-networked) amp with a speaker selection/volume control system (http://www.nilesaudio.com/images/legacy/manuals/svl6man.pdf) that controls 5 sets of speakers in different rooms. Rather than buying a new networked amp, I'm thinking about the rpi x hifiberry amp+ combo. My question is whether anybody knows whether there are any 'digital' speaker selection systems out there that might replace my 'mechanical' Niles. I realize I could buy additional rpi x amp+'s for each pair of speakers. That totally makes sense for people who want multi-room audio but don't have or don't want to pull new wires through their walls. But I have all my cables right there anyway, so that seems overkill to me. I'd appeciate any ideas anybody might have. -
Fabe56 Hi Wikkes, did you found a solution with 6 speakers? Actually I have 6 speakers with nominal impedance of 4-6 Ohms, but I'm not quite sure how I can all wired them to my Amp 2 :-/
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HiFiBerry team Hi,
the only option here is to have 3 of them connected in line as connecting them in parallel would result in an impedance <4Ohm.
Best regards,
Daniel -
Fabe56 Thanks Daniel, so in this case I need to only use one channel (left or right)?
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HiFiBerry team You can connect 3 in line to each of the output channels. However, for a multiroom instalaltion, I would strongly recommend multiple amps as you are not able to control the volume of multiple speakers connected to the same amplifier independently.
Best regards,
Daniel
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