Members Tarl-Saxon Posted March 15, 2007 Members Share Posted March 15, 2007 Hi Folks...Our band recently puchased a Peavey XR8300 powered mixer for rehearsel and small gigs. We are using 2 new Peavey PR15s for our main speakers and 2 12 inch old Traynor speakers as monitors (which may soon be upgraded to Peavey wedges). This unit is doing a nice job for us. My question is this. We run both monitors daisy chained as there is only one monitor out (and one main out) on the back of the unit. There is also a monitor out(and main out) on the front of the unit and the manual just says it is for additional speakers. Right now with the 2 monitors daisied we have a 4 ohm load, the minimum this unit can handle. If we put 1 or 2 more monitors out of the front will the ohms be cut down further? Can we do this? I,m a newbie at this so I hope I explained it ok. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted March 15, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 Yes, adding additional speakers in parallel (that's what the circuit arrangement will be) will reduce the total impedance. Two 8 ohm speakers will be a 4 ohm load, four 8 ohm speakers will be 2 ohms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoundMan Posted March 16, 2007 Members Share Posted March 16, 2007 The front output is a line level output to drive additional amplifiers. The internal amplifier outputs are on the back of the unit only. SoundMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tarl-Saxon Posted March 16, 2007 Author Members Share Posted March 16, 2007 Thanks soundman...makes sense to me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Singin' Dave Posted March 16, 2007 Members Share Posted March 16, 2007 Yup. 2 more monitors would necessitate an external amp to maintain a 4ohm load on the original mons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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