Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Harman Kardon HKTS 11, with which you’re about to begin many years of listening enjoyment. The HKTS 11 has been custom-designed to provide all the excitement and power of the cinema experience in your own living room.
While sophisticated electronics and state-of-the- art speaker components are hard at work within the HKTS 11, hookup and operation are simple. Color-keyed cables and connections, and simple controls make the HKTS 11 easy to use.
To obtain maximum enjoyment from your new home theater speaker system, we urge you to take a few minutes to read through this manual. This will ensure that connections to your receiver or preamp/processor and amplifier or other external devices are made properly. In addition, a few minutes spent learning the functions of the various controls will enable you to take advantage of all the power and refinement the HKTS 11 is able to deliver.
If you have any questions about this product, its installation or operation, please contact your dealer, the best local source of information.
Description and Features
The HKTS 11 is a six-piece home theater speaker system that includes a 10-inch, 200-watt, bass- reflex powered subwoofer; four identical, 2-way dual-driver satellite speakers for use in the left and right front and rear speaker positions; a voice-matched, dedicated, dual-driver center speaker; shelf stands and wall-mount brackets for the four satellites; and all of the speaker cables you need to connect your speakers to your receiver or preamp/processor and amplifier. The speaker cables and speakers all use a color- coding system to conform to the CEA standard. The color-coding system minimizes confusion, especially when the HKTS 11 system is used with a Harman Kardon receiver.
The HKTS 11 subwoofer is easy to connect to your system, since it’s equipped with a special subwoofer input for use with equipment that has a dedicated subwoofer connection that car- ries a low-frequency output. It also includes stereo speaker-level inputs and outputs for con- nection to older receivers and processors that do not have a line-level subwoofer output. Other conveniences include a level control, high-cut (low-pass) filter switch and phase switch for fine-tuning bass response to suit your listening environment and taste, and an efficient switch- ing system that senses the presence of an audio signal and automatically switches the unit from Standby mode to Active mode.
Shelf stands and wall-mount brackets are includ- ed for the satellite speakers, and optional HTFS 2 floor stands are available separately from your Harman Kardon dealer.
Harman Kardon invented the high-fidelity receiv- er fifty years ago. With state-of-the-art features and time-honored circuit designs, the HKTS 11 is a perfect complement to a Harman Kardon receiver or any home theater system.
■Complete home theater speaker system
■Speakers are magnetically shielded for placement near video monitors
■Fully color-coded cables and connections simplify setup
■Both line- and speaker-level inputs for use with most audio components
■Subwoofer input offers superior-quality bass reproduction when used with any digital audio system that incorporates bass management or programmable crossovers
Included
One center channel speaker
One powered subwoofer
Four satellites for left, right and surrounds, with color-key stickers (shown with included shelf stands attached)
Four wall- mount brackets
One RCA cable for connection to subwoofer (purple)
Three 6-meter speaker cables for connection to front satellites (red and white) and to center speaker (green)
Two 12-meter speaker cables for connection from receiver to rear satellites (gray and blue)
