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Speaker Connections

Speaker Installation

The illustration below shows a basic example of installation of the amplifier combined with 8 speakers and a monitor.

Subwoofer

Center speaker

Surround back speakers

Front speakers

 

Place the front speakers to the

 

Surround speakers

sides of the monitor or screen and

 

as flush with the screen surface as

 

possible.

 

The table below shows a typical speaker configuration for the AVR-3808CI.

 

Front

 

Surround A

Surround B

Surround back

 

 

L

R

Center

L

R

L

R

L

R

1

Subwoofer

 

 

only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.1-channels

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

S

–

S

(Surround A+B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.1-channels

S

S

S

S

S

–

–

S

S

–

S

6.1-channels

S

S

S

S

S

–

–

–

–

S

S

5.1-channels

S

S

S

S

S

–

–

–

–

–

S

3.1-channels

S

S

S

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

S

2.1-channels

S

S

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

S

2-channels

S

S

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

Speaker Connections

Example: 5.1-channels (Surround A+B) and ZONE2 use

 

Front speakers

Center speaker

Subwoofer

 

 

 

Subwoofer

 

 

 

with built-in

(L)

(R)

 

amplifier

w q w q

 

w q

*/

 

b L : Left

R : Right

(L)

(R)

(L)

(R)

(L)

(R)

w

q w q

w qw

q

w qw

q

Surround speakers

Surround speakers

ZONE2 speakers

 

A

B

 

ZONE2

 

 

 

 

 

 

When using just one surround back speaker, connect it to the left channel (SBL).

NOTE

By default, the AVR-3808CI’s “Amp Assign” setting is set to “ZONE2”.To use as the surround back speaker for the main zone, change the “Amp Assign” setting (vpage 68, 69).