Can I derive a third, center channel from the S.I. amp?

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Otis

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Hi guys, I greatly enjoy the sound of the little S.I. amp in two-channel, but very much want to add a center channel speaker. This could easily be done by tying the two 'negatives' together and summing for a Paul Klipsch-style center speaker arrangement, in effect making it 3 channel.

Can this be done, or will it smoke the little guy? I hope someone has tried it.  Do I have to be the first to risk it? :)

Otis

louthewiz

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Re: Can I derive a third, center channel from the S.I. amp?
« Reply #1 on: 6 Jun 2005, 01:29 am »
Quote from: Otis
Hi guys, I greatly enjoy the sound of the little S.I. amp in two-channel, but very much want to add a center channel speaker. This could easily be done by tying the two 'negatives' together and summing for a Paul Klipsch-style center speaker arrangement, in effect making it 3 channel.

Can this be done, or will it smoke the little guy? I hope someone has tried it.  Do I have to be the first to risk it? :)

Otis
All you will do is damage the amp because a 3rd channel has to be decoded and your little amp is not designed to do that specific task. And yes all you will have is a smoking amp.

Bingo

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Can I derive a third, center channel from the S.I. amp?
« Reply #2 on: 6 Jun 2005, 01:47 pm »
I thought that would just give you L-R information and that decodes naturally, i.e. Dynaquad. I don't know how the "bridged" SI would fare, though.  40 bucks worth of smoke?