RTi6 and RTi4 hookup?

bishopsnet
bishopsnet Posts: 18
edited June 2004 in Speakers
There are two sets of connectors on the back. A top and a bottom. Which set do I connect the wires to?
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited June 2004
    The botttom set I belive unless you want to biwire or biamp them then you'd use both.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,056
    edited June 2004
    I have mine hooked into the tops. I dont think it makes a diff.
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  • Oldwriter
    Oldwriter Posts: 248
    edited June 2004
    Yo - Willow - as I removed the gold plates, I asked myself the same question re my RTi6s. So - I called Polk! The very nice person there said: "As long as you keep an appropriate bridge between the two sets of lugs, it makes no difference."
    I just put some wonderful Blue Jeans Cables 10-AWG Belden wires on the speakers - and made sure that I put THE SAME wire bridging woofer and tweeter lugs. Hope that helps? larry R.
    BTW - the Blue Jeans/Belden wire is wonderful! Highly recommend that company - bought both speaker and digital coax cables from them. The coax, BTW, is much fuller and richer than my former optical digital cable - my wife says it made a LOT of difference - and her hearing is super-critical.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,056
    edited June 2004
    true as you know I too have changed my jumpers for the same 12awg cable used. ditching the gold jumpers is a must !!
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited June 2004
    You can hook your speaker wire to either set of posts. The wire simply gets the signal from your receivers posts to the speakers, behind the posts inside your speakers their is a panel you will see it called a cross-over alot on the board, this crossover panel takes the electrical signal and then magically separates the frequencies and sends them to the appropriate driver (speaker) in your speaker cabinet. If you hook to one set of posts you leave the gold plated jumpers in place. If you are going to bi-wire or bi-amp and use both sets of posts you MUST remove the gold plated jumpers.

    Enjoy your speakers.

    RT1-out
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  • Oldwriter
    Oldwriter Posts: 248
    edited June 2004
    Hmmm - well, now, I've been told by a number of you more advanced audiophiles to REMOVE those gold plates, and replace them with heavy wire. OK - who says yes, and who says no to that? I've done it already - so for me, it's a moot point, I guess. Any ideas? Larry R.
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited June 2004
    Should I replace my gold bridge thingies with some of my 12awg wire I am using for the speakers themselves even though I don't have any of that fancy Blue Jeans Cable?
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2004
    Some folks like to replace the supplied bridge....is it necessary? No. Can you get better sound with your own jumpers? Thats debatable. I highly doubt a 2.5" run of gold plated bridge is gonna suffer any loss, or degrade the sound in any way--but its up to you. Some guys make jumpers with monster cable and banana's. To each his own.

    The only time the jumpers are removed is when bi-wiring. You can use either set of terminals when the jumper is in place. Some recommend connecting to the top set, this way only bass information is being routed thru the jumper...makes sense to me.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • bishopsnet
    bishopsnet Posts: 18
    edited June 2004
    i don't understand all this bi-wire bi-amp stuff. You guys are talking over my head. I tried to read the manual description, but it just confused me. What does it mean man?
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,056
    edited June 2004
    bi-wiring is using one receiver ...2 speaker cables per speaker
    so for example your front right speaker has 4 posts in the back 2 top 2 bottom. You run one speaker cable to the top posts and second set of speaker cable to the bottom posts both ssets of speaker cables are hooked up to the one receiver.

    bi-amp---almost the same except you have one amp powering the highs the top posts and one the lows the bottom posts...same as above but you have 2 amps

    (if Im not mistaken)
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited June 2004
    Bishop,

    Sorry for confusing you, I would not worry about bi-wiring, there are lots of threads here on it if you want to know what it is, just run a search on bi-wire.

    Just hook up your speaks sit back and relax to your tunes.

    RT1
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