4 speakers in a large room

Just found this simple test on Quora (though I've read similar takes elsewhere).

"Almost always the speakers were just paralleled.

It's easy to tell. With just one set of speakers on A,

if A+B parallels them then the speakers will continue to work going from A to A+B

If A+B places them in series then switching from A to A+B will silence the speakers."

DeKay

Something else to consider...

I used a vintage KLH Model Twenty-One table radio in various apartment/house kitchens from the late 70’s up to the early 90’s.

Now there are nice vintage/retro look BT ready radios (and powered speakers "only" that look like radios) available which could be placed in the kitchen area and mated to an iPod or something similar.

With this method you could better implement whatever system you place in the main area.

Even though in some of the homes the main stereo was easy enough to hear in the kitchen area I didn’t wan’t to fuss with the good gear (tape/LP sources) while cooking, thus the radio.

When entertaining guests seemed to like listening to the KLH, though after dinner we would usually listen to the main setup (up until I purchased a TV with a screen larger that 6" in the mid 80’s;-).

This said, I’ve never owned a smart phone, never streamed aside from listening to music on the iMac - if that’s even considered to be streaming, and my wife’s iPod has only been used to take photos - so maybe it’s a dumb idea.

DeKay

i have 4 bose 901 series 2 hanging in my little living room! i have a mcintosh mc602 powering them! i have the speakers connected in 'parellel' so it goe's down to 4 ohms! no problem with my mcintosh!!

When I did distributed audio and there was a room with 4 speakers, we would wire the stereo pairs where the “left” speakers, as wired to the amplifier, were kitty-corner to one another and the “rights” were the same. This way, there was stereo sound almost everywhere as you moved through the room. 

i have 4 bose 901 series 2 hanging in my little living room! i have a mcintosh mc602 powering them! i have the speakers connected in 'parellel' so it goe's down to 4 ohms! no problem with my mcintosh!!
 

The 70s called. They want their living room back. Please include the black lights and lava lamps.