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Any standard speaker will "work". What you get depends on what you intend to use it for. PA? get PA speakers. Home audio? Listen to some in your price range, and choose what has the sound you like.
That amp has 2/4/8 ohm outputs along with 70v Outs. It sounds like you've hooked up an 8ohm speaker into a 70v out. check out the mfrs. links below. Good Luck!!
It sounds like speakers are loading down internal DSP - contact any Guitar Center and ask one of their techs for sure. Double check your speaker connections also.
any mosfet transistor amplifier shares two on each side, so if you re running four speakers on a two channel amp you are running at less than 1 ohm, only certain amps can run at 1 ohm stable, protection mode is a precausion, so if its happening you are pushing it too hard, carefull you are punching pure DC into your speakers and soon one if them will give way... good luck
common problem with xti series... all the amp needs is a soft ware update contact crown and they can sort it for you... you dont have to send the amp back to them. it was a verry common fault with all the early xti amps..
bi-wiring requires the removal of the copper jumpers between the hi and low speaker terminals. you can use two wire pairs twisted together at amp out connections and the four separate ends at each speaker, but the quality of sound will not be as good as buying quality bi-wire cables. But a pair of quality single set of wires at each speaker would be fine, but put jumpers back on and attach to the top terminals, they are designed that way. bi-wiring does allow the crossover to put out a little better sound. Hooking up four sets of wires to the a and b speaker terminals sounds bad. i have had alot of trouble with my rti10's and learned the hard way that it is best to pay more for wires with quality terminations.
You'll need to use one of the four stereo inputs on the mixer and make sure you wire the speakers separately to channels one and two of the amplifiers. Assuming both of your amps are xti series amps, that's all you have to do.
It sounds more like you are overdriving the speakers not clipping the amp. If the output rating for the amp is 1000W into 4 ohms, this is approximately 500W into an 8 ohm load. Your speakers are rated for 400W. If you are running the amp at full output, that is too much power for the speakers and either the speakers are warming up too much and failing or are being extruded too far and failing. Your best bet is to better match the amp/speaker setup. Crown amps have built in clipping indicators and I believe that the xti series also has a compression circuit that would prevent distortion on the output side.
To confirm my suspicions, in what manner are the speakers failing? Are they completely open or do they sound distorted?
I can not tell for sure without seeing the unit; however, this often happens with stereo receivers when the contacts on the protection relay start to go bad. You can try to polish the contacts with emery cloth or a fiber brush but it is best to replace the relay if you can find one that will fit.
I have a pair of these. Best audio thing I ever did. One amp as the the crossover is built into the amp. If you can find the compatible dual 18s then you'd need a second amp. Recently read a spec that they drop to 20 hz at 10 volts. So when you turn up the volume they rock with the bass truly showing a peak of their capability. These are just amazing. I originally used a crown xri4000. Just bought a Nad T 877 HT and when run only in stereo with QObuz, pretty incredible. Not the final purpose of this amp though. I may use the line outs to integrate the Crown Amps. Still getting an idea. So One powerful amp. You won't blow these out.
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