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Powered Mixer capabilities==Can I add more than two speakers?

camardelle

camardelle

Feb 19, 2012
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Beautiful Willis, Texas
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I'm looking at an inexpensive pa system on sale now at GC...the Harbinger M200BT. It has two outputs for speakers.

Is it possible to add an additional two speakers via a "Y" cable of some type or am I hoping for something that's not doable?

Total noob regarding live sound here. I don't plan to use it for anything other than practice at home or pumping music out in the front yard for my grandson's next birthday.

Thoughts?
 
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One last dumb question and I'll get back under my rock and quit bothering you guys.

I looked at this unit at Guitar Center and effortlessly connected my phone via bluetooth. I want to run backing tracks via my Mac Mini which is bluetooth enabled. Do you see any reason off the top of your head that would stop me from doing this?
 
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camardelle said:
One last dumb question and I'll get back under my rock and quit bothering you guys.

I looked at this unit at Guitar Center and effortlessly connected my phone via bluetooth. I want to run backing tracks via my Mac Mini which is bluetooth enabled. Do you see any reason off the top of your head that would stop me from doing this?
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should work fine. I've done it quite a few times on a couple of different rigs, and as long as your audio source is pretty close to the PA unit (like 8-10ft or less) it should be fine.
 
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pfschim said:
should work fine. I've done it quite a few times on a couple of different rigs, and as long as your audio source is pretty close to the PA unit (like 8-10ft or less) it should be fine.
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I'll have them on the same desk within a foot or less of each other. I think this little PA will more than satisfy my needs now and in the future. Thank you to everyone for sharing your expertise.
 
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Given the speakers are 4-Ohm, you could theoretically daisy chain (in parallel) two 8-ohm speakers on each side which would let the mixer “see” a ~4-Ohm load on each side. Connecting in series doubles the impedance.
Each speaker on each side would see 1/2 the mixers rated output per channel.
Would be fine if you had 4 x 8-Ohm passive wedges lying around.
Definitely NOT worth buying them tho.
 
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s0c9 said:
Given the speakers are 4-Ohm, you could theoretically daisy chain (in parallel) two 8-ohm speakers on each side which would let the mixer “see” a ~4-Ohm load on each side. Connecting in series doubles the impedance.
Each speaker on each side would see 1/2 the mixers rated output per channel.
Would be fine if you had 4 x 8-Ohm passive wedges lying around.
Definitely NOT worth buying them tho.
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Are you referring to the unit as a whole or just extra speakers and such?
 

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