Connecting Your Loudspeakers - Definitive Technology C/L/R 2300 Owner's Manual

Connecting Your Loudspeakers

Your C/L/R 2300 is a unique LCR speaker system which may be used as
a stereo pair (left and right), a center channel, a left, center and right and as
a rear or side surround loudspeaker.
Connecting Each Speaker with Speaker Wires Only
In most cases, you will connect the C/L/R 2300(s) to your amplifier as
youwould with any other speaker. When the C/L/R 2300(s) is hooked up
using simply one set of speaker wire per speaker (with no separate low level
input for the subwoofer section) a special circuit within the speaker takes an
infinitesimally small signal from the speaker level input and converts it to a
low level signal which then drives the subwoofer power amp in the speaker.
Simply connect the red (+) terminal of the speaker to the red (+) terminal of
the appropriate channel of your amplifier or receiver and then connect the
black (-) terminal of the speaker to the black (-) terminal of the same channel
of your amplifier or receiver. Remember, it is essential that all the speakers
(center, left, right and rears) be connected in the same way (in phase) to its
own channel of the amplifier. If you experience a great lack of bass,it is like-
ly that one speaker or more is out of phase the the others.
Using the Low Level RCA Input
You will note that your C/L/R 2300(s) has a low level RCA input jack on
the back. In most cases you will not use this input.
The particular set-up where you can use this input (although it is absolutely
not necessary to use it) is when you are using 3 C/L/R 2300s across the front
as Left, Center and Right channel loudspeakers without a separate subwoofer
on the LFE channel. In this case you can use a Y type low level RCA connec-
tor that goes from one to three wires and hook the one wire to the LFE RCA
low level out on your decoder or receiver and the three wires one each to the
low level RCA input on the back of your three C/L/R 2300s. You will then set
the bass management system to "Large" left main "Large" center and "Large"
right main and "Yes" subwoofer. Using this type of hookup will enable you to
balance the bass level on the speakers for music (with the level control on the
back of the speakers) while allowing you to adjust the LFE level separated
for extra LFE impact on movies. In addition it will utilize the subwoofer
capability of all three C/L/R 2300s for the LFE channel.
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