The Monitor Ones are completely covered with a non-slip rubber textured laminate whereas other speakers provide small stick-on pads (or nothing at all) to keep them from slipping around while they are playing. If you need to move the Monitor Ones or adjust their position slightly, lift them off the mounting surface first rather than attempting to slide them.
2.1 CONNECTIONS
Professional grade 5-way binding posts are provided for external wiring to the amplifier. This type of connector can accommodate bare or tinned wires, banana plugs and even spade lugs.
About Wire: A lot of hype and confusion exists about the type of speaker wires to use, most of it created by the wire manufacturers themselves in an effort to have a unique story to tell. While this expensive wire will not hurt the speaker's performance at all, Alesis does not subscribe to most of this hype and chooses to take an approach based on science when recommending speaker wire. Our recommendation is simple; use the shortest length of the largest diameter wire you can get. #12-14 gauge multi-stranded speaker wire found at most hi-fi stores works very well. This kind of wire resembles oversized lamp cord and is very easy to work with.
Before connecting the speakers, make sure your amplifier is turned OFF before making connections to it. Be sure you get the + terminals of the speakers wired to the + terminals of the amplifier.
To help you do this, most speaker cable has a way to tell one conductor from another. Some use different-colored wires or insulation; others mold a small line or marker into one insulator to mark it. If one speaker's polarity is out of phase with the other, the result will be loss of low frequency response and stereo imaging when the system is played.
In most cases, the speaker outputs of the amplifier will have a red terminal and a black terminal; these should be connected to the same-colored terminals of the Monitor One. Consult the manual of your power amplifier for specific information. In a properly-phased system, a positive input to the amplifier should result in a positive voltage on the red terminal, and push the driver forward.
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