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MOUNTING OPTIONS
Wall-Mounting
Attach the bracket to the wall. We strongly
recommend that you position the speakers
so that the mounting screws used connect
directly to a wooden wall stud. If that is not
possible, use optional wall anchors that are
rated to support at least twenty-five pounds,
and install them following the manufacturer's
instructions carefully.
You are responsible for proper selection and
use of mounting hardware, available through
The speakers may be placed on a shelf. They
hardware stores, to properly and safely wall-
may be tilted upwards simply by tilting them
mount the speakers.
back onto their sculpted surfaces.
They may be wall-mounted using the
supplied brackets.
Insert the knob supplied in the hardware
packet into the bracket as shown.
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MOUNTING OPTIONS
Then place the speaker on the bracket
and secure it from below using the
supplied screw.
Connection Guide
With the advent of multichannel surround
sound systems, connecting all of the speakers
in your system with the correct polarity
IMPORTANT NOTE: B
efore making speaker
remains equally important in order to preserve
connections, be certain that your receiver or
the proper ambience and directionality of the
audio power amplifier is turned off and,
program material.
preferably, unplugged from its AC power
source.
Left Speaker
Separate and strip the ends of the speaker
wire as shown. Speakers and electronics
terminals have corresponding (+) and (–)
terminals. Most manufacturers of speakers
and electronics, including Harman Kardon,
use red to denote the (+) terminal and
black for the (–) terminal.
To connect the supplied wires to the speaker
Many newer Harman Kardon receivers con-
terminals, unscrew the binding-post collar
form to the new CEA standard and therefore
until the pass-through hole in the center
use a color other than red for the (+) termi-
post is visible under the collar. Insert the
nal to indicate some speaker positions: e.g.,
bare end of the wire through this hole; then
blue for surround left positive (+). However,
screw the collar down until the connection is
the black terminal will always be the negative
tight. The hole in the center of each collar is
(–) connection. Please see the owner's guide
intended for use with banana-type connectors.
for your AVR Series receiver for further details.
The (+) lead of the speaker wire is often
noted with a stripe or ridge. It is important to
connect both speakers identically: (+) on the
speaker to (+) on the amplifier and (–) on
the speaker to (–) on the amplifier. Wiring
"out of phase" results in thin sound, weak
bass and a poor stereo image.
SPEAKER CONNECTIONS
Right Speaker
+
–
Left
Right
–
+
–
+
Front-, Surround- or Surround Back-Channel
Receiver/Amplifier Output
Configuring Your Receiver or
Processor
Many receivers and processors feature pro-
grammable bass-management capability,
which allows the component to output the
lowest frequencies (the bass information)
exclusively to a separate subwoofer speaker,
or to a main speaker that is capable of han-
dling low frequencies, or sometimes to both.
During the setup process you will be asked
to specify whether the speaker for a given
channel is "Large" or "Small. " The terms
"Large" and "Small" do not refer to physical
size, but to the size of the frequency range
the speaker is capable of handling. When
configuring your receiver or processor for
the channels where HKS 2 speakers are
being used, select "Small. "
SPEAKER CONNECTIONS
+
–
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