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Connecting Your Speakers

For the best surround-sound experience, you should con-

nect ﬁve speakers and a powered subwoofer.

The following table shows which channels you should

use based on the number of speakers that you have.

No matter how many speakers you use, a powered sub-

woofer is recommended for a really powerful and solid

bass.

Before using the AV receiver, you must specify which

speakers are connected and their sizes (see page 34).

To get the very best from your surround-sound system,

you should also specify the distance between the listener

and each individual speaker so that the sound from each

speaker arrives at the listener’s ears at the same time (see

page 52). In addition, you should set the level of each

individual speaker to achieve an equal balance (see

page 52.)

The AV receiver’s positive (+) speaker terminals are

color-coded for ease of identiﬁcation. (The negative (–)

speaker terminals are all black.)

The supplied speaker labels are also color-coded and you

should attach them to the positive (+) side of each

speaker cable in accordance with the above table. All you

need to do then is to match the color of each label to the

corresponding speaker terminal.

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.

• Read the instructions supplied with your speakers.

•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.

Speaker Conﬁguration

Number of speakers: 2345

Front left

✓✓✓✓

Front right

✓✓✓✓

Center

✓✓

Surround left

✓✓

Surround right

✓✓

Attaching the Speaker Labels

Speaker terminal Color

Front left White

Front right Red

Center Green

Surround left Blue

Surround right Gray

Speaker Connection Precautions

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