Hi, I would like to have me surround speakers to have the same output sound as my front speakers. Therefore, I am thinking to see if it is possible to connect a my surround speakers to the front speakers output jack behind my amplifier. As such, 2 wires will be sharing one output. Will it damage my speakers or amplifier? If not, what are the others cheap alternative?My system is TEAC PL-S3500 (those all-in-one 5.1 Home theatre system) with the following specification:Amplifier Surround Output Power (0.9 % THD, 1kHz, 8 ohm)- 30+30 watts (front)- 30 watts (center)- 30+30 watts (rear)Satellite Speakers (each)- 8 ohms Impedance- 30 W Power Handling CapacityThx! :)
I strongly recommend that you don't do that. Believe it or not, this is akin to taking the lid off the receiver and reconnecting the wires you find inside - not stable, could ruin your system. However, there may be an easier and better solution. Many surround processors have a mode called PARTY (or some such name, check your manual) that sends full frequency stereo to the rear speakers, and often mono to the center speaker. This should be the effect you are looking for, and when you want to go back to watching a movie you can just change the surround mode!
It would not be advisable to connect two 30 Watt 8 Ohm speakers to a single 30 Watt 8 Ohm Source. Connecting the speakers this way would change the Impedance (Ohm's) to 4 Ohms. That might damage your system and/or speakers. The all-in-one's were designed to connect one of the supplied speakers to each output. If you really must connect two speakers to the one output, try using two 15 Watt 16 Ohm speakers. You could also try using two 15 Watt 4 Ohm speakers connected in Series. Series would be the connecting the positive (red) from your amp to the positive of speaker #1. The negative (black) from speaker #1 to the positive of speaker #2. The negative from speaker #2 to the negative of your amp. I guess my only question to you is, Why would you not want true surround sound. There might be five channel stereo settings on your amp that would give your surround speakers the same sound of your front speakers. I could not find any manual for your unit on the net to check this out.
