Switching Front speakers with Rear speakers: Is there any reason why you cannot not switch the front and rear speakers?
239513
No reason you can't, they are all 4 ohm. You may lose some of the sound quality because I believe there is more than one speaker in the fronts.
237225
These speakers are not designed for your two main (front) speakers on your sound system, or home theater system (unless in a very small room, such as a dorm room, etc). These speakers are best used for your rear or side speakers in a surround sound setup. If you opt to use them as your main speakers, you could add a subwoofer directly to the receiver to give added bass output to the system. However, again, unless the room is small, these would not be the best choice for your 2 main speakers.
60142
Yes, I recently added a center channel speaker to my existing 2 front speaker set up. I was running through RCA cables initially, but with the added channel, these are incompatible. I got the optical audio cable, hooked it to my receiver, but have been unable to get any sound whatsoever out of it.
1019563
Go into sound setting it will have an option for front only or all speakers
1019564
You have to navigate into the bluetooth menu, and find the obscure setting that turns on the rear speakers. I think it might be on the second tab. Or, it might be like the unit I returned where the rear actually failed completely
677030
As long as the head unit is 2 ohm stable it won't hurt anything BUT it is impossible to tune properly as the rear speakers will experience twice the power as the front speakers. You can turn the back down but their response will not be balanced. There are a number of ways to try to balance it but I am never satisfied with the results. You can put another pair of 2 ohm speakers in back and wire them in series so that the amp or head unit experiences 4 ohms and the speakers have to share the power...My two cents
408415
I don't know what your reference is for fronts. However, I am really pleased with them for the rear. They are very full sounding, not like some cheapy rear speakers
1816004
Thanks, do you use 301's for all 4 surround speakers? Seems to me the back surround speakers do not need to be high quality.
1440245
You could use them as fronts, however the speakers design is for dipole rear surrounds meaning they radiate their sound from the sides of the speaker cabinet and NOT from the front. You most likely would not be pleased using them as fronts. Definitive offers better solutions for fronts.
270160
These speakers are not designed to be used as front speakers; you could look instead at the JBL ES30BK 3-Way, 6" Bookshelf Speakers... (pair for $200.00)
1437444
I tried it when initially setting up my system and it worked. I had the two long front speakers hooked up as the back and the sound was fine. I've since changed it back as I found two older speaker stands for the designated back speakers.
1404984
Evelyn I'm almost positive you can add speakers. That's why they have the two outlets in the rear of the Stereo. I played an LP by Lena Horne last evening and the Studebaker Stereo is excellent. I tried to disconnect Speakers on one of my small mobile stereos so I could try them on the Studebaker, but I was not successful. Perhaps I will purchase speakers later for the Studebaker if I feel it's necessary. I hope this answers your inquiry. Much success to you. Best regards. PaigeStudebaker's Speakers are more than sufficient for me at this time.
2016803
There is no switch, that I can remember. I believe that it's all 4 speakers all the time. ~Justin
2137523
It's a trade off. If you don't use your rear speakers you can use those for the ceiling speakers. At least that's the way it appears to me
2051406
I'm no expert... but from what I recall the manual did state that you could wire two speakers to the front and use the rear for one sub. Probably a little under powered for the sub though. I am adding a kicker 12 sub, but I am buying a second amp for just that, haven't decided on which one. I hooked mine up to four kicker 6130s in the tower. sounds great and really puts out the sound on the sandbar.
1273402
Of course speakers can be switched out. You have to bear in mind that the speakers coming with this have the spring clip type of wire input, common with small systems, as opposed to the bigger binding post type of input for wire used on most separate hifi speakers and units. As for choice of other speaker, most will have impedance matches that make them broadly compatible with a range of systems so it really depends on what you want to do as to whether or not it makes sense. You may want to consider things such as the power output from amplifier, speaker driving requirements etc and then listen to a combination to see if it makes sense. Of course speakers can be switched out. You have to bear in mind that the speakers coming with this have the spring clip type of wire input, common with small systems, as opposed to the bigger binding post type of input for wire used on most separate hifi speakers and units. As for choice of other speaker, most will have impedance matches that make them broadly compatible with a range of systems so it really depends on what you want to do as to whether or not it makes sense. You may want to consider things such as the power output from amplifier, speaker driving requirements etc and then... » Read More Of course speakers can be switched out. You have to bear in mind that the speakers coming with this have the spring clip type of wire input, common with small systems, as opposed to the bigger binding post type of input for wire used on most separate hifi speakers and units. As for choice of other speaker, most will have impedance matches that make them broadly compatible with a range of systems so it really depends on what you want to do as to whether or not it makes sense. You may want to consider things such as the power output from amplifier, speaker driving requirements etc and then listen to a combination to see if it makes sense. « Show Less
1124097
I simply sat the tweeters on my two front speakers. Ran a wire from each - and + on the tweeters right into the - and + on my front speakers. They have built in crossovers so it seems to work fine this way.