|   Need help with connecting surround speaker to HTS... | FCobra94
Mar 30, 2002 11:48 PM | | I have a reciever that has 4 speaker inputs for front speakers, 1 speaker input for center channel, and 2 speaker inputs for rear surround sound speakers. Right now I have 4 front speakers and a center channel. I have one speaker laying around and I want to use it as a rear speaker by itself. If it isn't worth trying this, I'm not even gonna worry about the rear for now so I hope this works...
What I'm thinking is taking the 2 pos. from the reciever to one pos. for the speaker and do the same with the neg. Would this work? Would it be better to take a pos. from one channel and a neg. from the other and just do it this way? Any other better way to do this? I know it wouldn't sound right if I just used the left or the right so what should I do?
Thanks for the help! |
| re: Need help with connecting surround speaker to HTS... | Chris009
Mar 31, 2002 1:07 AM | | You might be a bit confused....when you said "4 speaker inputs for front speakers" those are probably for 2 sets of Main speakers. These are your Main A and B speakers...if that is so, i suggest you only use only either A or B and not both. You DO NOT need 2 pairs front speakers. You are not going to fully experience surround sound by using 4 front speakers and a center channel...surround sound doesn't work like that. I suggest you take the 2 speakers from your front and use it for your surround (one for your left surround and the other for your left surround)...So know you have 2 for your Main (front) speakers, a center channel speaker and 2 surround speakers...There you go....and one more thing...don't even experiment with your speaker wiring...I wouldn't suggest you do what you said you wanted to do with the wiring, you might just break your speaker...just remember positive goes to positive and negative to negative. Im a little worried coz i don't think you know what you are doin. |
| re: Need help with connecting surround speaker to HTS... | FCobra94
Mar 31, 2002 7:38 AM | | Actually, I do know what I am doing...I have my Kenwood HTB-504 set up the "normal" way just like you mentioned. It's connected to the DVD player with the digital cable and this reciever has the DTS feature whcih my other does not. The "beginner" Aiwa HTS I have in the game room is just for playing PS2, etc. and watching TV. It only has Dolby Pro Logic and doesn't have DTS or Dolby Digital like my other reciever. It's not worth it to me to run all the extra wires through the carpet, etc. for the two surround speakers so I put them out front and have an A and B set of speakers for the front, and a center channel. This still leaves me with two rear channel jacks on the reciever for rear speakers. Since I have an extra Kenwood speaker sitting around, I wanted to use it by just running speaker wire out to it when watching a DVD and not have it hooked up all the time...What I din't know before yesterday was that Dolby Pro Logic doesn't split up the two rear signals like with DTS and Dolby Digital and thats why I was afraid of hooking up this one rear speaker to either the right or left surround sound channels...I thought that if I could take both the right and left signals and run them into the one speaker that it would make up for a the split signal, but the rear speakers only see a mono signal from Dolby Pro Logic anyway so I don't have to worry about that now...I can just hook up the speaker to either the right or left rear channel and it will be the same sound comming from both channels and the signal won't be "split" with two differnt sounds...I was thinking in a car audio kind of way which works with car amps and subs, but not a HT reciever ;) |
| re: Need help with connecting surround speaker to HTS... | paulbl
Mar 31, 2002 1:47 PM | | Using one speaker only for surround duty will not give you the full effect of DD and DTS soundtracks when watching a DVD. Also, hooking speakers up as you describe sounds like a recipe for disaster - you could wind up damaging your receiver. What I would do is use two of the four front speakers and relegate them to surround duty - that'll give you the full effect of the surround soundtrack when watching movies. One surround speaker ain't gonna cut it. |
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