Connecting The Speakers - Onkyo SKC-230C Instruction Manual

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Connecting the Speakers

Read the following before connecting your speakers:
• Turn off your amp before making any connections.
• The nominal impedance of these speakers is 8 Ω . Use
only an amp that supports this impedance.
• Pay close attention to speaker wiring polarity. Connect
positive (+) terminals to only positive (+) terminals,
and negative (–) terminals to only negative (–) termi-
nals. If the speakers are wired incorrectly, the sound
will be out of phase and will sound unnatural.
• Be careful not to short the posi-
tive and negative wires. Doing so
may damage your amp.
Connecting the Speaker Cables
1
Use the cables to connect each speaker's
input terminals to the corresponding
speaker output terminals on your amp.
To make a connection, while
pressing the terminal 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.
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Connecting the Subwoofer
1 Using the supplied RCA cable, connect
the subwoofer's LINE INPUT to your amp's
SUBWOOFER PREOUT.
SKS-HT230 & 5-channel AV Amp Hookup
Onkyo AV receiver used in this example.
Front right
speaker
Center
speaker
Red
SURROUND
SPEAKERS
R L
Surround
right speaker
Gray
L
ANTENNA
PREOUT
AUDIO
REMOTE
ANTENNA
CONTROL
R
AM FM 75
IN OUT IN
SUB
WOOFER TV/LINE MD/CDR/TAPE
DIGITAL VIDEO OUTPUT
Y P B P R
OPTICAL
OUT IN S VIDEO VIDEO COMPONENT
PREOUT
AUDIO
SUB
WOOFER
Front left
speaker
Green White
FRONT SPEAKERS
R L
CENTER
Surround
left speaker
Blue
SURROUND
SPEAKERS FRONT SPEAKERS
R L R CENTER L AC INLET
LINE
INPUT
Powered
subwoofer