Just bought new speakers

newtopolks

Hi everyone. I just bought new speakers, I have tsi500 as fronts, tsi300 as surrounds, cs10 as center & a psw505 sub. where should i put the speaker wire, on the top posts in tsi300 & tsi500 or the lower ones?
I put them on the higher ones.

Also as recommended in the manual I am wiring rec to sub to L & R fronts. It seems to me am not getting enough bass from the sub.

I have the pioneer 1019 rec.

All help is appreciated.

comfortablycurt

Hi there, welcome to Club Polk!:) Congrats on the new speakers!! That should make for a great sounding setup!

Regarding the binding posts, it doesn't make a difference. There are two pairs so that you can bi-wire or bi-amp them. The gold strip that bridges between the pairs is a jumper, which makes both pairs receive the full range signal. If you're bi-amping or bi-wiring, these jumpers need to be removed. With a single wiring method, you can use either pair.


I'd also recommend connecting the front L/R directly to the receiver, and running the sub from the LFE(subwoofer) pre-out on your receiver. Then you'll be controlling the subs crossover in the receiver. Make sure to turn the EQ on the sub itself all the way up, to avoid double filtering the signal.

DForeman

Welcome to CP.

To echo what Curt just stated - doesn't matter if you connect the speaker wire to the top or bottom posts.

There is lots of good advice in this Polk forum which has helped me immensely over the years.
Use the search function a lot, you'd be amazed at the information amassed here.

Good luck.

packetjones

+1 on Curt's advice. He is spot on.

I have moine connected to the bottom posts but it really doesnt matter. Also make sure that you have ran the calibration in your receiver. It will help alot as well.

newtopolks

thanks for the help guys. ran the auto calibration, looks like the surround right was not connected. connected that, but auto calibration with mic does not recognize the sub. the auto calib said that L & R were inverted even tho they were not. now I am getting bass, more than before but at the highest setting when choosing both knobs at the back of the sub.

newtopolks

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Hi there, welcome to Club Polk!:) Congrats on the new speakers!! That should make for a great sounding setup!

Regarding the binding posts, it doesn't make a difference. There are two pairs so that you can bi-wire or bi-amp them. The gold strip that bridges between the pairs is a jumper, which makes both pairs receive the full range signal. If you're bi-amping or bi-wiring, these jumpers need to be removed. With a single wiring method, you can use either pair.


I'd also recommend connecting the front L/R directly to the receiver, and running the sub from the LFE(subwoofer) pre-out on your receiver. Then you'll be controlling the subs crossover in the receiver. Make sure to turn the EQ on the sub itself all the way up, to avoid double filtering the signal.

Will I get more bass with subwoofer direct to lfe?

thanks for the response

j allen

Btw, I've got that same receiver, with a slightly different setup. (I think yours may be better, but I'm not sure)

Anyway, when you connect the sub via the subwoofer out, you may need to change the receiver setting for your subwoofer from 'yes' to 'plus.' It took me about 24hrs from when I got my subwoofer to when I figured this out, as that manual is a pain to reference.

wutadumsn23

Hey new, welcome to Club Polk. The guys have you pointed in the right direction, as usual. I'll save us the time and say I agree with what they have posted so far, IMHO LFE is the way to go with a sub connection. Looks like you have yourself one heck of a HT going there, the only thing I would recommend you look into is possibly swapping out the CS10 with a CS20, that 10 may have a hard time keeping up with the 500's. Just my personal opinion and I know they are brand new speaks, just saying because the center channel, IMHO, is the most important speaker in any HT since it is formatted to carry something like 50-75% of all the audio, esp dialogue and you don't want to skimp on it. I usually recommend the biggest, baddest center you can afford/fit and the CS20 is a pretty big speaker and can sometimes be a pain to fit into HT racks. You can try turning up the volume on the center in your AVR's menu to compensate for the time being and who knows that may be good enough. Good luck.

-Jeff

newtopolks

wutadumsn23 wrote: »

Hey new, welcome to Club Polk. The guys have you pointed in the right direction, as usual. I'll save us the time and say I agree with what they have posted so far, IMHO LFE is the way to go with a sub connection. Looks like you have yourself one heck of a HT going there, the only thing I would recommend you look into is possibly swapping out the CS10 with a CS20, that 10 may have a hard time keeping up with the 500's. Just my personal opinion and I know they are brand new speaks, just saying because the center channel, IMHO, is the most important speaker in any HT since it is formatted to carry something like 50-75% of all the audio, esp dialogue and you don't want to skimp on it. I usually recommend the biggest, baddest center you can afford/fit and the CS20 is a pretty big speaker and can sometimes be a pain to fit into HT racks. You can try turning up the volume on the center in your AVR's menu to compensate for the time being and who knows that may be good enough. Good luck.

-Jeff

I certainly will turn up the volume, a 1/4th of an inch more & i would not have been able to fit the center in its space. thanks

newtopolks

j allen wrote: »

Btw, I've got that same receiver, with a slightly different setup. (I think yours may be better, but I'm not sure)

Anyway, when you connect the sub via the subwoofer out, you may need to change the receiver setting for your subwoofer from 'yes' to 'plus.' It took me about 24hrs from when I got my subwoofer to when I figured this out, as that manual is a pain to reference.

thanks will try that today. Btw, can i use both, the speaker wires & lfe at the same time or will that blow the sub?

wutadumsn23

newtopolks wrote: »

I certainly will turn up the volume, a 1/4th of an inch more & i would not have been able to fit the center in its space. thanks

Yeah, that CS2/CS20 can be hard to accomodate. People have used the "smaller" CS1/CS10 with sucess though, so don't sweat it too much.

newtopolks wrote: »

thanks will try that today. Btw, can i use both, the speaker wires & lfe at the same time or will that blow the sub?

How so? Do you have the mains hooked up to the Sub? Try hooking them up to your AVR and letting it power them, that AVR will be able to handle the full load of Monitors you have with no problem. Keep the Sub hooked up via LFE from the AVR though and see where that gets you.

-Jeff