Connecting Your Speakers
Speaker Connection Precautions
Read the following before connecting your speakers:
•You can connect speakers with an impedance of
6 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
•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
•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
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. |
|
The following illustration shows which speaker should be connected to each pair of terminals.
White
GreenRed
Center speaker | Front right | Front left |
| speaker | speaker |
20