How many speakers is too many?

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subharmonic
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How many speakers is too many?

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Coming from the home audio world I never really dealt with stacking speakers much.

So when is enough enough? How long can I make my chain? What am I losing with multiple speakers in a run? Pending I can make all the resistance balance out to 4-8 ohms, there has to be a limit. What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
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Nothing special, other than that you need a pretty powerful amp capable of redonculous voltage swing to use the stack to its full potential. And the wiring to make that happen will be a weird beast. Not easy to get it right on a busy day of rigging.

The scalability sucks, and it's just more convenient with more small amps.
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the ceiling is your limit pal
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subharmonic wrote:What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
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#5 Post by Jon Barnhardt »

subharmonic wrote:Coming from the home audio world I never really dealt with stacking speakers much.

So when is enough enough? How long can I make my chain? What am I losing with multiple speakers in a run? Pending I can make all the resistance balance out to 4-8 ohms, there has to be a limit. What happens if I stack 16 DRs on one channel running the whole stack at 8 ohms?
I've played some big events and would never envision needing more than 4 per side. Any bigger than that and you are looking at flying the PA anyway...
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