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[Keith Broughton]

I am installing 6 speakers in a small office. The sound source is a home hifi integrated amplifier.
I could do a series/ parallel arrangement with the 8 ohm speakers, but the question is, can I use 25 volt transformers at the speakers to allow for individual levelling and drive them from the amplifier without a step up tansformer at the amp?

[Hal Bissinger/COMSYSTEC]

Or 70 volt transformers. Sure, that's the way many amps derive a 25 or 70.7 volt output.

-Hal

[Lee Douglas]

I am installing 6 speakers in a small office. The sound source is a home hifi integrated amplifier.

I would just get three impedance matching stereo volume controls and wire one to each pair of speakers in each office/location.  A Profficient VC45i volume control can be had for under $30 each.  Super easy.

[Keith Broughton]

That's one solution that would work. I'll keep it in mind.

But...the question is...can I run a 25 volt distributed system directly from the output of the hifi amp without the use of a step up xfmr?

[Jason Lavoie]

That's one solution that would work. I'll keep it in mind.

But...the question is...can I run a 25 volt distributed system directly from the output of the hifi amp without the use of a step up xfmr?

You can, but it'll be quiet. might be fine for an office situation.
Whether the amp will be happy depends on how you wire the transformers. if they're each tapped at 15W that gives a total impedance of 6.94ohms

Jason

[Mac Kerr]

That's one solution that would work. I'll keep it in mind.

But...the question is...can I run a 25 volt distributed system directly from the output of the hifi amp without the use of a step up xfmr?

Sure, as long as the load impedance of the paralleled speakers doesn't fall below the rated low impedance spec of your amp. What horrible thing did you think might happen? Unless you have the proper amplifier the rated wattage taps of each speaker won't be accurate, but you won't damage anything by using a non-transformer output amp.

Mac

[John Roberts {JR}]

I am installing 6 speakers in a small office. The sound source is a home hifi integrated amplifier.
I could do a series/ parallel arrangement with the 8 ohm speakers, but the question is, can I use 25 volt transformers at the speakers to allow for individual levelling and drive them from the amplifier without a step up tansformer at the amp?

How many watts is the amp? 25V is 78W @ 8 ohm so a 75w hifi amp would be reasonable to drive a 25V constant voltage network directly. While hifi amps may not be very robust.

JR

[Keith Broughton]

Thanks for all the responses. I now have the info I need.

[Ivan Beaver]

How many watts is the amp? 25V is 78W @ 8 ohm so a 75w hifi amp would be reasonable to drive a 25V constant voltage network directly. While hifi amps may not be very robust.

JR

That is a simple concept that many people don't understand.

Just like with a 70V system.  An amp that is rated for 600 watts @8 ohms will drive it without a transformer-and the low freq rolloff and saturation associated with it.

[Jason Lavoie]

An amp that is rated for capable of 600 watts @8 ohms will drive it without a transformer-and the low freq rolloff and saturation associated with it.

To be more specific

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