How to connect Canare S411 to Polk's

Murray1

Help a color blind guy out. Looks like I am seeing red,pink,white,&grey or clear inside canare insulation. Simple question. What color wire goes to what binding post. Speakers have 4 binding posts. Two blacks and 2 reds. Need to know what color wire goes to what binding post. Thanks

ben62670

Tie the red and pink together, and the white and grey.

Murray1

ben62670 wrote: »

Tie the red and pink together, and the white and grey.

Sorry to bug you, but I want to confirm. Are you referring to tying the wires together that go into the avr? If I connect the combined red and pink into avr positive, I assume I connect the red wire to one positive post on the speaker and the pink to the other positive post on the speaker. Same goes for the white and grey but going to negatives on avr and speaker. I want to bi-wire my speakers. Thanks for your patience.

ben62670

Don't bother BiWiring. Replace the jumpers on the speakers with a short piece of wire(tie the positive to the positive, and the neg to the neg) and use them as a 2 wire solution.
Ben

MLZ

Murray1 wrote: »

Sorry to bug you, but I want to confirm. Are you referring to tying the wires together that go into the avr? If I connect the combined red and pink into avr positive, I assume I connect the red wire to one positive post on the speaker and the pink to the other positive post on the speaker. Same goes for the white and grey but going to negatives on avr and speaker. I want to bi-wire my speakers. Thanks for your patience.

• At the amp combine the Red & Pink wires and attach to a Red post
• At the amp combine the White & Gray wires and attach to a Black post

two options at the speaker:

to bi-wire (questionable if this improves the sound, but you already have the wire and it will not hurt.):

• Remove the jumpers between two red posts and the two black posts
• Attach Red wire to top red post
• Attach Pink wire to lower red post
• Attach White wire to top black post
• Attach Gray wire to lower black post

Conventional wiring:

• Remove the jumpers between two red posts and the two black posts and replace with short piece of wire cut off the Canare (or any good quality wire to replace stock jumpers.)
• At the speaker combine the Red & Pink wires and attach to a Red post
• At the speaker combine the White & Gray wires and attach to a Black post

I bi-wired and for convenience, I used 4 spades (one per wire) at the speaker and two bananas (one for Red + Pink and 1 for White + Gray) at the amp since the combined wires were thick.

Murray1

Thanks for the info guys. Think I have discovered that I will need banana plugs at the amp end. New amp arriving this a.m. so will find out soon. Any suggestions where I can get decent banana plugs in the San Diego area? What kind??

fbm211

You can order nanners online like ebay.Maybe even monoprice has them.

MLZ

I havealways been happy with Speaker Repair for both spades and bananas which is located in Orange County http://www.speakerrepair.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=AHH_Banana

Murray1

ended up buying some monster crimp style banana plugs. not too bad on the price and they turned out fine. definitely easier going into the receiver. bare wired the speakers with no problems.