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I’ve been handed this site and equipment. How would you make it work with what is provided. What issues do you see?

Elura 500/1 mixer amp 500 watt 1 channel amplifier @ 8 ohm
10 Elura pendant speakers at 8 ohm
3 Elura 100 watt impedance matching volume control knobs
Zone 1 = 6 speakers
Zone 2 = 2 speakers
Zone 3 = 2 speakers
AppleTV is the source of the audio from an extractor

Because of the volume control knobs it needs to stay at low impedance 8 ohm.

Inherited a customer who has a 500 watt 1 channel amplifier connected to 3 x 100 watt volume control knobs. 1 zone/knob has 6 x 8 ohm pendant speakers and the other 2 zones/knobs have 2 x 8 ohm pendant speakers each. The issue they are having is the amplifier is clipping or going into protection mode briefly on some of the louder parts of the music.

500 watt single channel amp tapped at 8 ohm
10 pendant speakers tapped at 8 ohm
3 impedance matching 100 watt volume control knobs
Zone 1 has 6 pendants
Zone 2 and 3 have 2 pendants

Is this possible with 3 impedance matching volume controls being driven by a 1 channel amplifier tapped at 8 ohms?

I have switched everything over to 70 volt using the same amp, volume controls and speakers but it still clips. It’s better but I realized the volume controls are only for low impedance.

My main question is can you drive 3 low impedance zones from a 1 channel amplifier? Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t the 3 low impedance zones act as 2 ohms or less to the 1 channel amplifier?

Thanks for your help!

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