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Audio/Video Gear and Systems => Enclosures => Topic started by: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 05:48 am

Title: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 05:48 am

I've got a CC speaker that is sitting in my garage doing nothing. How can I hook it up to a spare two-channel amplifier without destroying the amp? This would be the only speaker (no L or R speaker - just the center channel speaker). In essence, it would be a boom box. I'll probably use my old and trusty Squeezebox Touch as source/preamp control.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Michael

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: JohnR on 19 Jul 2020, 06:05 am

Hi Michael, you would use just one channel of the amp. Perhaps in the Squeezebox there is an option to mix both channels to mono? Then connect just one channel to the amp.

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 04:55 pm

JohnR,

That's too simple!  :lol: I'll check to see if there is a mono setting. If there isn't, perhaps there is an inexpensive work around.

Thanks.

I decided to just drop my asking price for the Ancora CC speaker to $550 shipped. If it doesn't sell, I will dismantle it for parts and/or experiments.
Just bought a cheap mono amp from Parts Express!
Michael 

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: charmerci on 19 Jul 2020, 05:17 pm

Quote from: JohnR on 19 Jul 2020, 06:05 am

Hi Michael, you would use just one channel of the amp. Perhaps in the Squeezebox there is an option to mix both channels to mono? Then connect just one channel to the amp.

I'm not an expert but if my memory is correct (IDK), I thought that was bad for the amp.  :scratch:

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: FullRangeMan on 19 Jul 2020, 05:23 pm

How can I hook it up to a spare two-channel amplifier without destroying the amp?
Some amps cant be wired in bridge/mono, I burnt the output transistors of an integrated in the past, for safety use one channel only as suggested.

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: musicgeek on 19 Jul 2020, 05:23 pm

There are dayton bluetooth amps if I remember that can do summing to mono, I was considering a similar thing to convert a center to a bluetooth boombox.

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 05:39 pm

Quote from: musicgeek on 19 Jul 2020, 05:23 pm

There are dayton bluetooth amps if I remember that can do summing to mono, I was considering a similar thing to convert a center to a bluetooth boombox.

Yup! I just Googled mono amps and landed on the Parts Express website. With a 7% discount, I'm buying a simple mono integrated 240w amp. Boombox heaven is just a week away. 

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: srb on 19 Jul 2020, 09:00 pm

Quote from: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 05:39 pm

With a 7% discount, I'm buying a simple mono integrated 240w amp.

If it's the Pyle PT510, the power output is actually 50W @ 10% THD, 1kHz.  ;)

Title: Re: What if I want to use a Center Channel speaker all by itself?
Post by: mresseguie on 19 Jul 2020, 09:13 pm

Hahaha!  No worries. It’s not as though I’m going to crank up the music to ear splitting levels anyway. Think background music.