Thread: Speaker impedance - home theatre

No.
BUT the poor volume probably has as much to do with the efficiency of the Sansuis as the impedence. If the Sansuis were designed for a large output system , they may be relatively inefficient.
Just turning up their volume should be all that is required, but be careful that you do not run into clipping in the amp.
AFAIK many if not most surround systems have relatively low output amps, or they couldn't sell a complete system for $700-800 or whatever.
They claim big numbers but that doesn't add up with the low cost and small dimensions.

Regards Philip A

You can't physically change the impedance but have you tried the sound set up as what is going to which speaker and when.
Effect speakers are exactly that, effect and depending on what track is laid on the DVD or blu-ray.

If its a newer amp it may have the little mike you out in the room and it will self adjust each speaker output.
Pretty nifty and does so according to what the mike gets as feedback from each speaker or you can re-adjust after or do entire setup yourself.

Most important setup is the dialogue or front centre speaker as that is where the voices or dialogue comes from and is often neglected and people pay more attention to big speakers and subs.

For tonal balance is probably best to get all speakers to match and hence same make but budget and room size etc come into play.
If you already have speakers try different positions and see how you like it best.
Remember, no-one has ever heard anything the way you do with your ears.

The sub too, is important that it just reproduces distortion and the better the sub is the better it will relay them.

Good speakers are amazing and do cost money, lots of it but it all depends what you are after, budget and idea of what is good.

Also, a $1000 amp will not sound as good as one for $5k which is obvious but what is also obvious is that the speakers and cables and interconnection has to be relative to each other.

I run Dynaudio for all speakers except my centre which is sonique because the Dyns are too expensive atm. Oh money money money.

In other words, try swapping some speakers around and do a sound test and see what comes out of them. Try them as front speakers or front affect speakers etc.

Thanks guys!
It's a reasonable ($2.5k) Yamaha, not enthusiast level, but no "HT in a box" job either.

I'll run the autosetup and...RTFM . If it's still not right, I'll try to source some matching rears.
Cheers
Mike

going from 6 to 8 ohms won't make a massive difference, probably only a drop of about 30% power. As above efficiency is likely to make considerably more difference