Luxman R-1040 Receiver with Cambridge SoundWorks Ensemble Speakers

[maried]

I recently had to take my Luxman R-1040 Receiver in for repair because one of the channels died. The repair guy said he just had to replace a couple of fuses, but mentioned that we needed to be sure that our speakers were the correct impedance, otherwise we might have the same thing happen again in the future. When we asked for help with figuring it out, he told us he'd do it for a fee, so we left and decided to figure it out for ourselves.

We have 2 sets of Cambridge SoundWorks Ensemble speakers that we've been using, and had been using for years with no problems, so we're not convinced they're the issue. These speakers are a Subwoofer-satellite pair that are the following according to the documentation: "Each low-frequency unit/satellite pair operates as a system in parallel with a nominal impedance of 6 ohms." The Luxman has a notice on the back saying that impedance should not be less than 4 ohms, so we'd assumed that we were fine. However, now we're unclear as to whether the entire system has an impedance of 6, or does each unit (the subwoofer & satellite) have an impedance of 6 ohms, in which case, having them in parallel makes it only 3 ohms.

Our current setup involves hooking up the subwoofer to the speaker terminals on the receiver, and then running the satellite off the subwoofer.

Any advice from anyone who might know the details about these speakers?

Thanks!

Marie

 

[Addicted to hifi]

Welcome maried To wbf. If your running two pairs of speakers together impedance will be half.so if each speaker is 6 ohms each it will become 3.