Connecting The Speakers - Crystal Acoustics System Series Operating Instructions Manual

Connecting the speakers

This section explains how to conect your speakers to your amplifier.
• Before connecting the speakers make sure that your amplifier is turned off.
• Turn off the subwoofer before connecting the input signal cable on its internal
amplifier.
• Connect the plus (+) and minus (-) terminals of each speaker to the corresponding
plus (+) and minus (-) terminals on the amplifier.
• If a biwire type of connection is used (except System 2, System 5 and System
Dipole 4 that have single wire binding posts), the gold plated bridges must be taken
off. Unscrew the binding post's screws and pull off the two bridges. Tighten the
screws.
• If you use bare speaker wire at the speaker terminals, remove the binding post's
screw and place the bare wire into the side opening of the terminal. Then tighten the
screw.
• If a banana plug type is used, just push the plug into the binding post's top hole.
Figure 1 shows a typical system connection of two front speakers, two rear speakers,
one center speaker and one subwoofer on a AV amplifier for 5.1 channel reproduction.
Front Right
Rear Right
AV Amplifier
Subwoofer
LINE IN
Subwoofer
Figure 1. Typical connection of 5.1 channel configuration.
Center
Front
R
Center Rear
R
Front Left
L
L
Rear Left
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