does anyone know why it has 2 sets of wire inlets on each speaker? Normally it's one set black and red....
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I believe these come jumped for parallel connection to another pair or can be separated for separate amping to woofers and tweeter.
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One set is for the midrange speakers (woofers) and the other is for the tweeter. Of you have a receiver that is capable of bi-amplification, you can run the woofers on one amp and the tweeter on another. I think the top set is for the tweeter and bottom is for the woofers, but check the manual to be sure.
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A single 2 conductor wire is all that's needed for standard installation, keeping the connecting bars in place. The other option is for running 2 sets of wires to each speaker. On pair for the high frequency driver, one for the low to mid frequency driver. The gold plated bars connecting the terminals must be removed. Both pairs of wires connect to the same amplifier output ultimately, unless separate amplifier channels are available, which could be advantageous. This is called bi-wiring. Some audio gurus believe it offers a negligible improvement in quality. It is purely subjective. A more enlightened approach is to utilize a separate amplifier that has been connected to an active frequency dividing component known as a crossover. 2 amplifiers would be required, or 4 separate channels, and a separate preamplifier or receiver with preamplified outputs. Unfortunately as delivered the Monitor40 would still have the passive filters connected to the drivers. It would be bi-amped, but the most desirable advantages of bi-amplification are somewhat subdued owing to the passive crossover components remaining in the signal path. It would be measurably improved none the less. The passive components could then be removed without much difficulty by anyone with some soldering equipment.
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2 way but only two terminals on each speaker. Assume there's an internal crossover circuit. So no, only 2 wires per speaker.
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The extra tweeters should be fed from a crossover from the front channel speakers as a "component" set. The wiring from the head unit wouldn't be affected by this, it'd wire up to the source or the amp as if it's a 4-speaker system.
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No, Question for you. Did you use all 20ish feet of wire that shipped with the speakers, If so, that is most likely your problem, use as short of wire are possible to reduce the chances of electrical signals feeding into the speaker wire. I took that wiring and threw it in the garbage, grabbed some slightly thicker wire cut it to about 5 inches for signal and ground then soldered the crap out of everything and covered it with shrink wrap. I also reused the OEM connectors.
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Hi David. These are speakers with standard 2 wire ( red and black ) terminals that screw down on the wires. They are very nice great sounding and designed to add to an amplified speaker system. I added to my samsung home theater and they are just what the doctor ordered. Hope this all helps in your quest for speakers.
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I would guess that they shipped the wrong cable. I received a cable that connects with both speakers. You should return or notify the seller that they included the wrong cable.
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Hi, not quite sure, my question to you is how old is your speaker wire...what gauge..any green anywhere on those conductors..did you do any splices anywhere even the signal wire for a double sub setup has to be done right double check every input jack for wear at the strain reliefs. Hookup one set at time and test at each add
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don't understand the question. ??? two wires per speaker one + and one - you need two wires.
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i was wondering what quality and hookup of the speaker wire is that this sysytem comes with. can i switch it out for my own of better quality or is it hardwired to the speaker/system? thanks
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Dear Bill, Thanks for the info. I didn't connect the wire's directly but I guess it amounts to the same thing. The left and right front speakers are attached to STR-DH800 posts. I connected separate the speaker wires from the left and right front speakers posts to the left and right posts of the subwoofer. The subwoofer is a part of a Paradigm Cinema 70 set. It has its own power plug, an on/off switch and an RCA input The subwoofer hums when the RCA is plugged into it and I touch the unplugged end. Sincerely, John
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I haven't done that but the on-line instructions say you can attach two sets of speakers with normal speaker wire and a woofer, and also use the RCA - but I can't believe you can use them all at once - sorry I can't be of more help - I'm just a novice
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on my set one is red and the other is black. If you hold up the left headphone with the ear piece pointing away from you the wire will bend off to the right.
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Agreed with all of the previous responses. You want to simply control the input from one channel [A] of your amplifier, and that goes to your four sets of speakers, identified as 1-4 to the right of the input. Frankly, not clear why they are showing "Output" connections below the Input connections. I am sure someone knows, but, for me they are just irrelevant.
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mine was ordered as 2 seperate speakers.judging from the pix im seeing its being sold as a single unit.you can tell from the price most likely.they are 175 to 225 each usualy
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There are 2 RCA outputs to an amp for the front speaker and 2 more RCA outputs to an amp for the rear speaker.
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I have 2 wires to each of the main speaker outputs on my receiver. One to the Subwoofer and one to the main speakers. it works flawlessly and sounds awesome.
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You would have to cut off the two little speaker plugs, strip each of the four wires back half and inch, separately twist the strands for each wire, and plug those wires into the amplifier's speaker connections. There is a picture on the Amazon ad for this amp that shows the back and what the speaker connections look like. This is not complicated but you have to end up with the wires from one speaker going into the amplifier's left two speaker connectors (+, -) and the other speaker wire going into the two right speaker connections (+,- do not matter much in small systems, but if the speaker wires are color-coded then you may as well match with the "+" and "-".).