Connecting Your Speakers
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
•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.
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LINE INPUT |
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| SURROUND BACK | SURROUND | FRONT | CENTER | |
| SPEAKERS | SPEAKERS | SPEAKERS A | SPEAKER |
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PRE OUT |
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SUB |
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WOOFER |
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Brown Gray
Tan
Surround | Surround | Surround | Surround |
Back Right | Back Left | Right | Left |
Connecting Speaker Set A
The AV receiver’s positive (+) speaker terminals and speaker’s positive (+) terminals are
Speaker terminal | Color |
Front left | White |
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Front right | Red |
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Center | Green |
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Surround left | Blue |
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Surround right | Gray |
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Surround back left | Brown |
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Surround back right | Tan |
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1 On the AV receiver, unscrew the terminal. Fully insert the bare wires. Make sure that the bare wire is touching the inside of the pole. Screw the termi- nal tight.
2 | On the speakers, loosen the binding posts. |
| Insert the speaker wires |
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| shown, then tighten the |
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3 | Using the supplied RCA cable, connect the AV |
receiver’s SUBWOOFER PRE OUT to LINE INPUT on the subwoofer.
Make sure the cable is plugged all the way.
Connecting Speaker Set B (sold separately)
1 | Strip 3/8" (10 mm) of insu- | 3/8" (10 mm) |
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| speaker cables, and twist |
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| the bare wires tightly, as |
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2 While pressing the lever, insert |
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| Make sure that the terminals are |
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| gripping the bare wires, not the |
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| insulation. |
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Note:
When speaker set B is turned on, speaker set A is reduced to
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