Onkyo TXNR828 instruction manual En-17, Connecting a Power Amplifier, Bi-amping the Front Speakers

•Make sure the metal core of the wire does not have contact with the AV receiver’s rear panel. Doing so may damage the AV receiver.

Connections

Connecting a 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.

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

•Don’t connect one speaker to several terminals.

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. Perform bi-amping connections by using FRONT terminals and FRONT HIGH/Bi-AMPterminals as shown below.

Once you’ve completed the bi-amping connections and turned on the AV receiver, you must set the speaker setting to enable bi-amping (➔ page 64).

Tweeter (high)

Woofer (low)

Front right Front left

Using Dipole Speakers

	TV/screen
a	a
b	b

You can use dipole speakers for the surround and surround back speakers. Dipole speakers output the same sound in two directions.

Dipole speakers typically have an arrow printed on them to indicate how they should be positioned. The surround dipole speakers (a) should be positioned so that their arrows point toward the TV/screen, while the surround back dipole speakers (b) should be positioned so that their arrows point toward each other, as shown.

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L

R

Power amplifier

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

Wide

Note

•Specify “None” for any channel that you don’t want to output (➔ page 64).