Connecting Your Speakers - Onkyo HT-S3100 Instruction Manual

Connecting Your Speakers
The AV receiver's positive (+) speaker terminals are
color-coded for ease of identification. (The negative (-)
speaker terminals are all black.)
Speaker terminal Color
Front left White
Front right Red
Center Green
Surround left
Blue
Surround right Gray
Subwoofer Purple
While pressing the lever, insert
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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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(10mm)
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Strip 3/8" (10 mm) of insu-
lation from the ends of the
speaker cables. (Supplied
speaker cables are already
stripped.)
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.
• 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.
The following illustration shows which speaker should
be connected to each pair of terminals.
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-+ -+
/
White
/
Red
/
Green
-+ -+
/
Purple
-+
C-'+~
Subwoofer Surround
right
speaker
Surround
left
speaker
Center speaker Front right
speaker
Front left
speaker
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