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Connecting Your Speakers

Speaker Connection Precautions

 

Connecting Speaker

 

 

 

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 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.

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.

 

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

Purple

GrayBlue

Subwoofer

Surround

Surround

 

right

left

 

speaker

speaker

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White

GreenRed

Center speaker

Front right

Front left

 

speaker

speaker

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Onkyo SKC-340C, SKF-340F, SKM-340S, SKW-340 Connecting Your Speakers, Speaker Connection Precautions Connecting Speaker

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