Quick Question

[spcamaj]

Im using a 5.1 system is it a good idea to use the surround speakers as rears and surround cause it has 4 connections on my monitor 40s.

[acritzer]

I think I know what you're asking, but it's not very clear. Do you have a 6.1 or 7.1 receiver? Are you asking if you should hook up the speakers to both the surround channel and the rear channel? I'd say "no".

[spcamaj]

i have the onkyo 806 its a 7.1

[acritzer]

I'm a bit new to some of these features, but I believe that if you skip the rear channels and set the receiver to 5.1 as you have now, any rear channel stuff will simply be re-directed to the surrounds anyway. Plus, there may be problems with hooking up speakers the way you're describing...I can't tell you what they might be, but seems like it wouldn't be a good thing to do.

[Nick4Blu_81]

I think I know what your asking, but I'm not sure if one speaker is capable of producing two separate sounds at the same time. Even thought there are two drivers, there is still only the single tweeter. I'm sure someone who is smarter than I will be able to help you out. But I personally don't think you will get a good result from hooking them up that way.

[Nick4Blu_81]

Sorry didn't mean to post again. The site was acting funny when I posted.

[Fors*]

The dreaded double post......^

[Hammie]

You cannot connect the surround and rear surrounds to the same speaker, especially if it has 4 posts.

What you would end up doing is sending the highs from one set of outputs to the speakers and then the lows from the other set of speakers. I cannot imagine the mind games you would be getting by doing this.

On another note, I'm not sure if you would damage the speakers but if you hooked them up to the two sets of speaker outputs, you would probably get some bad surrounds. The surrounds are designed to be in a certain position and any calibration, like Audyssey, is supposed to fix delays due to speaker distances. I'm not even sure what Audyssey would do with the same speakers producing the surrounds and rear surrounds channels.

I would not do it. Stick with a 5.1 set up and use the surrounds. Your Onkyo will matrix the 7.1 audio tracks just fine to the 5.1 speaker setup.

[kingofgrills]

I'm guessing the four terminals on your speakers are for bi-amping them if you want to. You definitely cannot use one speaker for both surround and rear surround simultaneously. Each speaker terminal set is for a given frequency driver or set of driver. Trying to connect them to multiple outputs on your receiver will possibly damage your speakers and/or receiver.

[Hammie]

Originally Posted by kingofgrills

I'm guessing the four terminals on your speakers are for bi-amping them if you want to. You definitely cannot use one speaker for both surround and rear surround simultaneously. Each speaker terminal set is for a given frequency driver or set of driver. Trying to connect them to multiple outputs on your receiver will possibly damage your speakers and/or receiver.

I guess that is s ort of what I was trying to say.

The 40's have one black and red connector for the high frequencies (HF) and another set for the low frequencies (LF). Normally, a jumper will connect the two set of posts together. Polk provides a flat metal bar. Other providers sometimes use a set of wires. An alternative can be bi-wiring or bi-amping.

In the end, don't try connecting the surround and rear surrounds to the same speakers. It could be bad for your system.