DoctorStar Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Evening folks, I'm looking to resurrect an old Peavey mixer/amp and a pair of passive speakers at school for use as a drum monitor. Both of the speakers have two 1/4" jacks in the back and the amp obviously has a L/R output. So I want to check, are the pair of jacks on the back of the speakers likely to be wired so extra speakers can be wired through in series? If so, does it matter which socket I use to power the speaker? I don't want to cause any (further) damage before I start! Cheers and hope you are having a good evening, Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolley1466 Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Like most speakers, the inputs are probably parallel so no, it doesn't matter which socket you connect them to. However, I doubt you'd do much damage if you tested them both with a very low signal just to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndenim Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 As tolley, this will be fine.What mixer/amp and cabs are we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorStar Posted July 1, 2010 Author Share Posted July 1, 2010 Cheers John, Tolley, I will check 'em out over the w/e as described and will post make and type. BW Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambron Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Check what ohmage the speakers are. A lot of Peavey speakers are 4 ohms so if you connect two in parallel, you will need to make sure the mixer amp can handle 2 ohms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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