This depends on your amplifier's specifications. i would recommend looking in the amplifier's service manual to avoid disapointment or damage to your amplifier or speakers.
If the receiver is just stereo, not surround sound, you will not be able to create a surround sound (front, centre, sub, surround) setup.
You can connect a sub and speakers to one amp, depending on how many channels your amp has. A 4 channel amp will be able to run one (or two) subs using two channels (one bridged* sub or two subs) and two speakers running one channel each. A 2 channel amp will run 2 speakers or one bridged sub. A 6 channel amp will run one bridged sub (or two subs), 2 front speakers and 2 rear speakers. In my opinion, you will get the most performance, depending on which amps you use, by using a monoblock amp for your sub and an amp with enough channels to run all of your speakers. # Bridged = putting together the power of two channels to run one sub or speaker. Note: not all amps are bridgeable.
If you have a 4-channel stereo installed, then there is a point. The door speakers would be front, left & right channels, the parcel shelf speakers would be rear, left & right.
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No, the output of most DVD players are analog stereo (front channel only) or digital optical or coaxial. The DVD player must be connected to a surround sound receiver, and then the front and rear speakers can be connected to that.
you could connect them all to each other then connect them to the receiver. or if you wanted a surround sound experience you could connect the biggest directly to the left and right channels respectively and then connect two of the pairs one set at a time as follows... left surround front (positive to receiverL+, negative connects to the positive of the left surround rear, negative of the left surround rear goes into the receiverL- ) on the right side ( right surround front + goes to receiver, (-) goes to the (+) of the right surround rear, the (-) of the right surround rear goes into the receiver.) this changes the sound frequencies the speakers are best at supporting because it changes the ohms of the speakers. this is called wiring in a series. as opposed to wiring the speakers all together + to + ,- to - , which is called wiring in parallel. Then with the last set of speakers set them at the very rear of the soundstage and wire the left speaker's positive into the left positive connection on the receiver then the negative of that speaker into the positive of the right channel. Then wire the positive of the right speaker into the positive of the right channel on the receiver and the negative of the right speaker into the positive of the left channel. this will only play the surround channels of the signal. test these speakers out alone if you want to hear the surround sound effect by itself. In music it will be the background singers ect. (if you have ever wondered how a surround system gets extra channels out of two analog wired channels now you know :)
If the speakers are passive and you can connect a line input into the sub separately, then yes. Most receivers can be configured for only two front speakers and a sub, although you will be losing all of the surround effect and the center channel benefits.
Use 1 channel for fronts & the other channel for the rears.
It uses ordinary speaker cables. Unlike modern surround speaker systems, the Acoustimass 7 does not have a powered subwoofer. The only way to connect it to a surround receiver is to use the speaker level outputs from the right, center and left channels. They connect to the sub, and then on to each of the front 3 speakers. You will need to tell your receiver that there is no connected subwoofer, and that the size of the front 3 speakers is 'large'.
You connect speakers and a sub to an amp by placing each wire into the appropriate connector. The connectors on the side of the amp are labelled for front, back, side, and sub depending on the configuration.
For a 5 channel set up, I would recommend putting two speakers in the back and two speakers in the front. Then place the subwoofer anywhere in the room.
That would make a total of 20 speakers. Sony sells no such system, nor do they sell an amplifier that can connect that many speakers.