Front Speaker sound intensity

Actually 6 Ohm speaker on 8 Ohm amp will be louder if the amp can handle the lower impedance. Impedance, SPL, dynamic range, dispersion angle, damping are factors in speaker performance. You did not mention brand name of amp or speakers.

Thx. My receiver and speakers are Precision Acoustics. However, I bought everything seperately and not as a package.

Like I said the stereo mode for FM tuner works great, but when I change to 5.1 and play all speakers and subwoofer, the sound from the satellites are better than the 6 ohm floor speakers.

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Hi, Discs have lot more dynamic range than FM broadcast. Maybe the speaker can't handle that increased dynamics.

I had a similar problem in the past. It bugged the crap out of me. In the end, I purchased new speakers all the way around and my center worked just fine in all modes. I didn't exactly have matched/balanced speakers but they weren't so mismatched that it should have caused such woes. I had Klipsch towers in the front, Klipsch center, and Polk Audio rears. I swapped all of them with 5 identical Bose--problem solved. Either my receiver didn't like the Klipsch center or the mismatch was throwing the whole thing off.

In 5.1, you're driving 5 speakers instead of 2. The way most common receivers are, you'll have to turn up the volume to get enough power to drive the extra speakers to the same loudness you achieved with only 2 speakers.

Actually, I've noticed and wondered about the same thing. I've installed several systems using 5.1 preamps driving separate power amps and the front volume in 2ch stereo mode is always considerably louder than when switched to 5.1 mode.

I could see box store HT receivers flaming out when 5 of 6 channels are driven, but not separate power amps.

-G