Wiring up My Speakers

simonparker

I was wondering if anybody could help me.

I have just purchased an RM 6700 Home Theater Speaker Package along with a PSW 303. The Amp i have powering all of this is a Harmon Kardan AVR 330.

When i was reading the literature it advises me to run the front satelitte speakers through the Speaker Outputs on the back of my Subwoofer.

I was going to run all of the speakers from the speaker outputs on the back of the amp and set the Sub-Woofer output on the amp to LFE and run a RCA cable to the sub.

Is this OK or is it better to run the front speakers from the Sub Woofer as described in the manual??

Thanks

Simon

PolkWannabie

Yes it is okay to use the LFE outputs for subs and wire the speakers directly and you'll find that MOST here prefer to use this methodology.

simonparker

Thanks for your help.

I have set my system up as i thought and it sounds great, i just wanted to know if the way they listed was better.

Thanks again.

Simon

simonparker

A lot of people on this site talk about Bi-wired speakers. I wanted to know what they are and if they are any better than "Conventional" wiring ie. 2 cores of wire, 1 to each terminal making sure of polarity.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by simonparker
A lot of people on this site talk about Bi-wired speakers. I wanted to know what they are and if they are any better than "Conventional" wiring ie. 2 cores of wire, 1 to each terminal making sure of polarity.

You'll get bunches of opinions on this.

First off, your speakers have to have bi-wire capability. Your speakers system is not capable of that, don't have separate posts for bi-wiring.

Second off, most people don't notice much of a difference with bi-wired speakers...enough such there many a debate has ensued on this site about bi-wiring.

PolkWannabie

Bi-wiring of speakers is only really done to speakers that have two pairs of terminals, an upper pair that feeds the upper and mid frequency range and a lower pair that feeds the lower frequency range.

Speakers like this usually come with jumpers or straps that bridge the upper terminals to the lower ones. Bi-wiring would involve the removal of the jumpers and running one set of wires from the amp to the top pair and another set to the bottom pair.

Some think this sort of configuration is an improvement, some think it's nonsense. It's really a matter of personal choice.

In my own situation I do this because I have different types of outputs coming from the amp for the same channel i.e. a current output which makes for a warmer "tube like" sound in the highs and a voltage output for the lower end.