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<blockquote data-quote="David Morison" data-source="post: 217424" data-attributes="member: 2076"><p>At the amp end of the cable then yes, a patch panel with the NL8 on it and individual cables to each amp channel is perfectly normal.</p><p></p><p>At the speaker end, you have a couple of options. First is to run separate cables to your subs from the amp rack - that gives the option of using heavier cable to better handle the high current needed by the subs. Your NL8 to the tops then only needs to use 3 out of the 4 available pairs, or you can put 2 pairs in parallel as Carl K describes which again gives better current handling for the feed to the 2x12's, as they do have the ability to take quite a bit of power between them.</p><p>If you really only want to run one cable out to each speaker stack from the amp rack then using NL8 for subs, 12's, upper mids and highs could be done - you could then either make up a splitter cable to get the sub feed out of that or put 2 NL8's on the subs and wire both in parallel, just using pins 1 for the sub and using the other connector as a pass-through to feed the rest of the channels up to the tops.</p><p></p><p>I'd favour the first option with separate sub cables, as that gives you the best current handling capacity and allows physical flexibility in how you set up ie it's easier to do centre clustered subs with separated L&R tops that way round.</p><p></p><p></p><p>PS: If you do decide to stick with the passive high-mid & high section, then you could just use NL4 for the tops with separate cabling for the subs.</p><p></p><p>HTH,</p><p>D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David Morison, post: 217424, member: 2076"] At the amp end of the cable then yes, a patch panel with the NL8 on it and individual cables to each amp channel is perfectly normal. At the speaker end, you have a couple of options. First is to run separate cables to your subs from the amp rack - that gives the option of using heavier cable to better handle the high current needed by the subs. Your NL8 to the tops then only needs to use 3 out of the 4 available pairs, or you can put 2 pairs in parallel as Carl K describes which again gives better current handling for the feed to the 2x12's, as they do have the ability to take quite a bit of power between them. If you really only want to run one cable out to each speaker stack from the amp rack then using NL8 for subs, 12's, upper mids and highs could be done - you could then either make up a splitter cable to get the sub feed out of that or put 2 NL8's on the subs and wire both in parallel, just using pins 1 for the sub and using the other connector as a pass-through to feed the rest of the channels up to the tops. I'd favour the first option with separate sub cables, as that gives you the best current handling capacity and allows physical flexibility in how you set up ie it's easier to do centre clustered subs with separated L&R tops that way round. PS: If you do decide to stick with the passive high-mid & high section, then you could just use NL4 for the tops with separate cabling for the subs. HTH, D. [/QUOTE]
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