What happened to the Logitech's speakers?

Short answer: don't do it

Long answer follows.

Theoretically yes it is possible (in the sense that it is possible to connect anything to anything else)

Also it is quite possible to drive floor standers with 20W per channel, some great sounding amps like the NAD have that much output.

Practically, these are the issues:

1. what is the impedance of the current satellites? the power draw depends on the impedance, until we know that it is not safe to hook up speakers to that amplifier. at best, it could sound bad, at worst there may not be enough power and fry the tweeters of the floor stander.

2. what is the high end extension of the subwoofer? will this overlap with the low end extension of the floor stander? will that produce boominess (bad)? how do you cut that frequency out from the sub?

3. Floor standers usually have good bass. is the low end extension of the floor standers lower than the subwoofer? Meaning, if the floor stander goes as low as 40 Hz, and the subwoofer bottoms out at 50Hz... why do you need a subwoofer, then?

4. "real" (not multimedia) subwoofers have a variable cut-off frequency which makes it easy to integrate and match with the other speakers; if the low end extension of the floor stander is, for example, 40Hz then the subwoofer should be cut off at 40Hz so there is no overlap. (see item #2)

5. lastly, the amplifier in the sub cabinet is not really all that good; a floor stander may be overkill for that application, and also the floorstander won't sound its best

This post has been edited by SiriuslyCold: Jul 13 2010, 01:15 AM