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So long story short: this lady and her brother lived next door to each
other on the same street. When he passed, she sold her property and
moved into his house. Included was this Onkyo receiver and CD player,
and about four pairs of speakers all over the house.
You can just about imagine what I thought when I went min back and
looked at how all of this was hooked up. The main speaker bus(A) is to the
pair in the dining room. Bus B is where it starts to get hairy: the left
speaker output goes to one of the speakers out on her deck, and the right
terminal, as well as the surrounds and center, all had at least TWO
SPEAKERS EACH hooked up to them!
Now she states that her brother ran it this way for years, and she just
continued using it when she inherited the house, and this mess. Neither
of them over drove it, just for background music from the built in tuner or
the CD changer.
So I explained to her that it was improper to havr more than one speaker
per terminal, let alone THREE, and that over time this affected the impedance,
and caused the Onkyo to eventually overheat and probably blow a fuse.
She says her brother worked in the stereo buisness for years. Hmmmm.
Sure enough, only one click after I turned it on, no delayed second click.
She said she doesn't care about "surround sound" and just wants to be
able to hear the radio or her CDs. So I said she could probably just find
ankther 10-15 year old receiver, plus a separate speaker sleector, and wire
up her whole house that way. Or, just runn speakers A in stereo in the
living room, speaker B left in e dining room, and speaker B right outside
on the deck.