Integra DTR-5.9 - Manual (Page 16)

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Connecting Your Speakers —Continued
Speaker Connection Precautions
Read the following before connecting your speakers:
• North American models: You can connect speakers
with an impedance of between 6 and 16 ohms. If you
use speakers with a lower impedance, and use the
amplifier at high volume levels for a long period of
time, the built-in amp protection circuit may be acti-
vated.
• Other models: You can connect speakers with an
impedance of between 4 and 16 ohms. If the imped-
ance of any of the connected speakers is 4 ohms or
more, but less than 6 ohms, be sure to set the minimum
speaker impedance to “4 ohms” (see page 43). If you
use speakers with a lower impedance, and use the
amplifier at high volume levels for a long period of
time, the built-in amp protection circuit may be acti-
vated.
• Disconnect the power cord from the wall outlet before
making any connections.
• Read the instructions supplied with your speakers.
• Pay close attention to speaker wiring polarity. Connect
positive (+) terminals to only positive (+) terminals,
and negative (–) terminals to only negative (–) termi-
nals. If you get them the wrong way around, the sound
will be out of phase and will sound unnatural.
• Unnecessarily long or very thin speaker cables may
affect the sound quality and should be avoided.
• Be careful not to short the
positive and negative wires.
Doing so may damage the AV
receiver.
• Don’t connect more than one
cable to each speaker termi-
nal. Doing so may damage the
AV receiver.
• Don’t connect a speaker to several terminals.
Connecting a Powered Subwoofer
Using a suitable cable, connect the AV receiver’s PRE
OUT: SUBWOOFER to the input on your powered sub-
woofer. If your subwoofer is unpowered and you’re
using an external amplifier, connect the PRE OUT: SUB-
WOOFER to the amp’s input.
Attaching the Speaker Labels
The AV receiver’s positive (+) speaker terminals are all
red. (The negative (–) speaker terminals are all black.)
The supplied speaker labels are color-coded and you
should attach them to the positive (+) side of each
speaker cable in accordance with the above table. All you
need to do then is to match the color of each label to the
corresponding speaker terminal.
Speaker Color
Front left White
Front right Red
Center Green
Surround left Blue
Surround right Gray
Surround back left Brown
Surround back right Tan
ANTENNA
FM
AM
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SIRIUS
LINE INPUT
LINE INPUT
PRE OUT
SUBWOOFER
Powered
subwoofer