Onkyo HT-S580 Connecting Your Speakers, Speaker Connection Precautions, Connecting Speaker

Connecting Your Speakers—Continued

Speaker Connection Precautions

Read the following before connecting your speakers:

•You can connect speakers with an impedance of

8 ohms or higher. If you use speakers with a lower impedance, and use the amplifier at high volume lev- els for a long period of time, the built-in protection circuit may be activated.

•Disconnect the power cord from the wall outlet before making any connections.

•Pay close attention to speaker wiring polarity. In other words, connect positive (+) terminals to only positive

(+) terminals, and negative (–) terminals to only nega- tive (–) terminals. If you get them the wrong way around, the sound will be out of phase and will sound unnatural.

•Unnecessarily long, or very thin speaker cables may affect the sound quality and should be avoided.

•Be careful not to short the

positive and negative wires. Doing so may damage the AV receiver.

•Don’t connect more than one cable to each speaker termi- nal. Doing so may damage the AV receiver.

•Don’t connect one speaker to several terminals.

Purple

GrayBlue

Subwoofer	Surround	Surround
	right	left
	speaker	speaker

Connecting Speaker

The AV receiver’s positive (+) speaker terminals are color-coded for ease of identification. (The negative (–) speaker terminals are all black.)

Speaker terminal	Color
Front left	White
Front right	Red
Center	Green
Surround left	Blue
Surround right	Gray
Subwoofer	Purple

1	Strip 3/8" (10 mm) of insu-	3/8" (10 mm)
	lation from the ends of the
	speaker cables. (Supplied
	speaker cables are already
	stripped.)
2 While pressing the lever, insert
	the wire into the hole, and then
	release the lever.
	Make sure that the terminals are
	gripping the bare wires, not the
	insulation.

Note:

When speaker set B is turned on, speaker set A is reduced to 2.1-channel playback.

The following illustration shows which speaker should be connected to each pair of terminals.

White

GreenRed

Center speaker	Front right	Front left
	speaker	speaker

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