Harman-Kardon Optimizing Placement for Harman Kardon Satellite Speakers in the HKTS Series

SPEAKER PLACEMENT

Color-Coding System

Center Channel Speaker Surround Speakers

The HKTS 8 uses the channel color-coding system established by the Consumer Electronics Association to make setting up your home theater speaker system as easy as possible. Your system includes a set of colored stickers that may be placed near the speaker terminals of each of the four satellite speakers according to the key below. It doesn’t matter which satellite speaker is used for any of the front or rear positions. (The center speaker and powered sub- woofer are already color-coded for you.)

	Speaker	Sticker (or Terminal)
	Position	and Cable Color
	Front Left	White
	Front Right	Red
	Center	Green
	Surround Left	Blue
	Surround Right	Gray
	Surround Back	Brown
	Subwoofer (LFE)	Purple
Front Speakers
	White		Red

The front speakers should be placed the same distance from each other as they are from the listening position. They should be placed at about the same height from the floor as the listeners’ ears will be.

The center channel speaker should be placed slightly behind the front left and right speakers, and no more than two feet above or below the tweeters of the left and right speakers. It is often convenient to set the center speaker on top of the television set, as shown in the drawing.

Subwoofer

White Red Purple

The low-frequency material reproduced by the subwoofer is mostly omnidirectional, and this speaker may be placed in a con- venient location in the room. However, the maximum reproduction of bass will be heard when the subwoofer is placed in a corner along the same wall as the front speakers. Experiment with subwoofer place- ment by temporarily placing the subwoofer in the listening position and moving around the room until the bass reproduction is best. Place the subwoofer in that location.

White Red

Green

Blue Gray

The two side surround speakers should be placed slightly behind the listening position and, ideally, should face each other and be at a level higher than the listeners’ ears.

If that is not possible, they may be placed on a wall behind the listening position, facing forward. Place the surround back speaker, centered, on the rear wall. The surround speakers should not call attention to themselves. Experiment with their place- ment until you hear a diffuse, ambient sound accompanying the main-program material heard in the front speakers.

NOTE: Dolby* Digital, DTS® and other digi- tal programs may benefit from aiming the tweeters toward the listening position at ear-level height. Keep this in mind if wall- mounting the satellites, as the wall-mount brackets are not designed to tilt the speakers up or down.

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