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Expert: - 4/11/2011


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I setup an Onkyo HT-S7300 7.1 home theater for my brother in law. The Onkyo has a Zone 2 to drive a seperate set of speakers. We installed Polk Audio Outdoor speakers ( 8 ohms ) along with a Niles WVC100 Outdoor volume switch. I was at his home today and the volume was very low on the outdoor speakers, we had an electrican run all the wiring and i dont remember what we set the impedeance slector on the volume control to. It may be at 8x, I think this may be the volume problem, what should the impedance setting be set at ?.. Thanks in advance.

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According to the manual, the 8x setting is needed if you're driving a total of 8 speakers. If you're only driving a single set of 8 ohm speakers, it needs to be set at 1x. The WVC100 manual has a chart that explains this fully (www.nilesaudio.com/images/PDF/WVC100_manual.pdf)

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