Onkyo TX-NR717 En-14, Using Powered Subwoofers, Bi-ampingthe Front Speakers, Connections

Using Powered Subwoofers

LINE INPUT

LINE INPUT

Powered subwoofer

Corner position

1/3 of wall position

To find the best position for your subwoofer, while playing a movie or some music with good bass, experiment by placing your subwoofer at various positions within the room, and choose the one that provides the most satisfying results.

You can connect the powered subwoofer with two SUBWOOFER PRE OUT jacks respectively. The same signal is output from each jack.

Tip

•If your subwoofer is unpowered and you’re using an external amplifier, connect the subwoofer pre out jack to an input on the amplifier.

Bi-amping the Front Speakers

Important:

•When making the bi-amping connections, be sure to remove the jumper bars that link the speakers’ tweeter (high) and woofer (low) terminals.

•Bi-amping can be used only with speakers that support bi- amping. Refer to your speaker manual.

Bi-amping provides improved bass and treble performance. When bi-amping is used, the AV receiver is able to drive up to a 5.1 speaker system in the main room.

Once you’ve completed the bi-amping connections as shown and turned on the AV receiver, you must set the speaker setting to enable bi-amping (➔ page 55).

Tweeter (high)

Woofer (low)

Front right Front left

Connections

Connecting a Power Amplifier

If you want to use a more powerful power amplifier, you can use the AV receiver as a preamp. Connect all speaker outputs to the power amplifier. See the manuals supplied with your amplifier for details.

Note

*1 Specify “None” for any channel that you don’t want to output (➔ page 55).

SB···Surround Back, FH···Front High, FW···Front Wide

L *1

R

Power amplifier

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