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[Rick Glover]

I am currently looking for advice on how to daisy chain two amplifiers. I have only one signal line available and I need to have more power for additional speakers. I was always taught to do a simple dasiy chain by going out from amp one to amp two and amp two out to speakers? Is this correct or do you need to run two signal paths, one for each amp? Please comment on this. Thanks.

[Mac Kerr]

Rick Glover wrote on Thu, 05 October 2006 18:04

I am currently looking for advice on how to daisy chain two amplifiers. I have only one signal line available and I need to have more power for additional speakers. I was always taught to do a simple dasiy chain by going out from amp one to amp two and amp two out to speakers? Is this correct or do you need to run two signal paths, one for each amp? Please comment on this. Thanks.

Absolutely not! If your amplifier has the correct connectors you can daisy chain the input signal to both amps. You then plug the correct number of speakers into each amp. Never connect the output of one amp to the input of another.

Mac

[Andrew Welker]

First, we need to know what speakers you're running and what amps, so we can help you better.  As Mac said, because the input of the amplifier is expecting a line level signal, you will damage the input section of the amp second in line.

A better option to get more power out of a single amplifier, if it is really needed, is to put the amp into bridge mode.  In this mode, you plug one wire of the line to the speakers into the + of channel one, and the other into the + of channel two.  There should be a switch on the back of the amplifier that will allow you to put the amplifier into bridge mode.  

Let us know what gear you're using, and we can help you better.

Andrew

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