Onkyo TX-NR515 Owner Manual - Page 14

About AV Connections, En-14 - receiver

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Using Powered Subwoofers LINE INPUT LINE INPUT LINE INPUT LINE INPUT Powered subwoofer Corner position 1/3 of wall position To find the best position for your subwoofer, while playing a movie or some music with good bass, experiment by placing your subwoofer at various positions within the room, and choose the one that provides the most satisfying results. You can connect the powered subwoofer with two SUBWOOFER PRE OUT jacks respectively. The same signal is output from each jack. Tip • If your subwoofer is unpowered and you're using an external amplifier, connect the subwoofer pre out jack to an input on the amplifier. Bi-amping the Front Speakers Important: • When making the bi-amping connections, be sure to remove the jumper bars that link the speakers' tweeter (high) and woofer (low) terminals. • Bi-amping can be used only with speakers that support biamping. Refer to your speaker manual. Bi-amping provides improved bass and treble performance. When bi-amping is used, the AV receiver is able to drive up to a 5.1 speaker system in the main room. Once you've completed the bi-amping connections as shown and turned on the AV receiver, you must set the speaker setting to enable bi-amping (➔ page 52). About AV Connections Connecting AV components a HDMI cable TV, projector, etc. Connections : Video & Audio AV receiver Blu-ray Disc/ DVD player Game console Other cables TV, projector, etc. : Video : Audio AV receiver Tweeter (high) Woofer (low) Front right Front left Blu-ray Disc/ DVD player Game console • Before making any AV connections, read the manuals supplied with your AV components. • Don't connect the power cord until you've completed and double-checked all AV connections. • Push plugs in all the way to make Right! good connections (loose connections can cause noise or malfunctions). • To prevent interference, keep audio and video cables away from power Wrong! cords and speaker cables. En-14

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Connections
En-14
Using Powered Subwoofers
To find the best position for your subwoofer, while playing
a movie or some music with good bass, experiment by
placing your subwoofer at various positions within the
room, and choose the one that provides the most satisfying
results.
You can connect the powered subwoofer with two
SUBWOOFER PRE OUT
jacks respectively.
The same signal is output from each jack.
Tip
If your subwoofer is unpowered and you’re using an external
amplifier, connect the subwoofer pre out jack to an input on the
amplifier.
Bi-amping the Front Speakers
Bi-amping provides improved bass and treble performance.
When bi-amping is used, the AV receiver is able to drive
up to a 5.1 speaker system in the main room.
Once you’ve completed the bi-amping connections as
shown and turned on the AV receiver, you must set the
speaker setting to enable bi-amping (
page 52
).
Connecting AV components
a
• Before making any AV connections, read the manuals
supplied with your AV components.
• Don’t connect the power cord until you’ve completed and
double-checked all AV connections.
• Push plugs in all the way to make
good connections (loose connections
can cause noise or malfunctions).
• To prevent interference, keep audio
and video cables away from power
cords and speaker cables.
LINE INPUT
LINE INPUT
Powered subwoofer
Corner
position
1/3 of wall
position
Important:
When making the bi-amping connections, be sure to remove
the jumper bars that link the speakers’ tweeter (high) and
woofer (low) terminals.
Bi-amping can be used only with speakers that support bi-
amping. Refer to your speaker manual.
Woofer (low)
Tweeter (high)
Front right
Front left
About AV Connections
HDMI cable
Other cables
: Video & Audio
: Video
Game console
Blu-ray Disc/
DVD player
TV, projector, etc.
AV receiver
TV, projector, etc.
AV receiver
Game console
Blu-ray Disc/
DVD player
: Audio
Right!
Wrong!