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CONNECTING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
The Cables
Examine your speaker cables. On the ends, there may be
spade lugs or banana plugs, each one color-coded red or
black like your speaker binding posts to help you identify the
red and black (positive and negative) wires on each end of the
cable. If the cable ends are bare wires and lack color coding,
check the wires: one may be copper-colored, the other silver.
Some generic cables may simply have a colored thread or a
ribbed pattern on the plastic insulation to indicate the positive
wire. Alternatively, some speaker cables may have writing on
one side or the other (perhaps the brand name, for example)
or even a positive sign or negative sign on each of the con-
ductors. Whichever you have, just follow the Red-To-Red,
Black-to-Black connection rule or use the + to + or - to - con-
nection scheme for each cable pair.
THE RECIEVER OR AMPLIFIER
Look at the speaker connectors on the rear panel of your re-
ceiver or amplifier. These will usually be red and black bind-
ing posts, like those on your speakers, or red and black
spring-loaded push connectors. The Red (+) terminal on your
receiver's Right speaker output connects to the Red (+) bind-
ing post of the Right speaker. The Black (-) terminal on your
receiver output connects to the Black (-) binding post on the
Right speaker. Follow the same pattern to connect the receiv-
er's Left speaker outputs to the Left speaker's binding posts,
then the left surround (the speaker to your left from your lis-
tening seat), and right surround speakers, the center-channel
speaker, and additional rear speakers required by 7.1-
channel systems. If your A/V receiver or amplifier has the new
Consumer Electronics Association color coding for each
speaker channel, the negative terminal (-) will always be
black, however, the positive terminal (+) will have a different
color corresponding to each channel of the surround system.
If you find this color coding confusing, note the positive (+)
and negative (-) polarity for each speaker and the speaker ca-
ble.
BIWIRING OR TRIWIRING - PASSIVE VERSIONS
Remove the rear panel module linking the Two or Three pairs
of binding posts for the separate woofer and midrange and
tweeter sections of the crossover for each speaker. Connect
Two or Three speaker cables (depending on the module cho-
sen) one cable to the tweeter pair of binding posts and one
cable to the midrange pair and one pair to the woofer - for
each speaker (two twin cables for bi-wiring and 3 twin cables
for tri-wiring per speaker).
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