How do I hook up two seakers to the same set of terminals on my amp? (1 Viewer)

[Jeremy Illingworth]

Is this safe? I want to have a pair of speakers for each rear surround and would like to just run them all off my amp.
jeremy

 

[Brett DiMichele]

Jeremy,
No it is not safe to do that. If you can hook up another
set of speakers it would be to the B terminals if the
receiver let you do so.
The problem with wiring more than one "set" of speakers
to a particular terminal is that you decrease the ohm
load which allows the amp to push more power, to the
point of amplifier failure in all likelyhood.
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[PaulKH]

Jeremy, you can get boxes which allow multiple sets of speakers to be connected to one set of amp connections AND they keep the impedance right for the amp. I have a Jamo box which allows up to 4 sets of speakers to go to one output.
DON'T just jam both sets of speaker wires into the one output on the amp.