I recently, tonight, upgraded my mains to Martin Logan Aerius i speakers. I noticed that when I played a cd while in stereo mode, the rear speakers were on. This has never happened before.

When running my Energy Veritas 2.1's, this did not happen. I know that my speaker wires are set up correctly.

My system is the Outlaw 950, 2 Parasound 855HCA's. The Martin Logans are 4 ohm speakers while everything else is 8 ohms. Could this be confusing the Outlaw? I have my ML bi-amped. So for the left speaker I have one channel coming from amp A and the one channel coming from amp B. Could this be messing things up?

Please help.

Jeff Aguilar

The difference in ohm-ratings wouldn't affect the 950 -- only the amps would care about that. Likewise, bi-amping itself shouldn't hurt. Did you bi-amp the Veritas 2.1's? If not, one wiring item to check (which you may have already done, it sounds like) would be to make sure that you don't have one set of bi-amp amp channels connected to the surrounds rather than the ML's. Might even try the ML's without bi-amping, see if the problem persists -- could help with troubleshooting.

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Well, after going back and checking my wiring, even though I was sure that there was nothing wrong with the wiring, it was the wiring. I had some wiring touching on one of my wall plates. After fixing that, there was no more problems. Sorry to bother everyone with this.

Jeff