[dizzy]

Eeyore wrote:

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote:

Any given receiver will run cooler with 8-ohm (or "6-ohm") speakers than
with 4-ohm.

Or maybe even avoid burning out or sounding lousy because it triggers internal
protection.

My receiver, and I assume many others, won't "sound lousy" when the
internal protection triggers - they'll shut-down.

The 5.1 movies, what works for me is to set the receiver (a Pioneer
Elite rated for 6 ohms) for "all speakers are small" (even though they
are not) so all the lows go to the sub. I also had to change the
crossover freq to 100 Hz (80 is normal), and then it works well.

For music, I swap speaker cables to use a "real" amplifier that can
handle the low impedance.