Harman Kardon HKS 2 Owners Manual - Page 3

MOUNTING OPTIONS The speakers may be placed on a shelf. They may be tilted upwards simply by tilting them back onto their sculpted surfaces. Wall-Mounting Attach the bracket to the wall. We strongly recommend that you position the speakers so that the mounting screws used connect directly to a wooden wall stud. If that is not possible, use optional wall anchors that are rated to support at least twenty-five pounds, and install them following the manufacturer's instructions carefully. You are responsible for proper selection and use of mounting hardware, available through hardware stores, to properly and safely wallmount the speakers. They may be wall-mounted using the supplied brackets. Insert the knob supplied in the hardware packet into the bracket as shown. Then place the speaker on the bracket and secure it from below using the supplied screw. SPEAKER CONNECTIONS Connection Guide IMPORTANT NOTE: Before making speaker connections, be certain that your receiver or audio power amplifier is turned off and, preferably, unplugged from its AC power source. Separate and strip the ends of the speaker wire as shown. Speakers and electronics terminals have corresponding (+) and (-) terminals. Most manufacturers of speakers and electronics, including Harman Kardon, use red to denote the (+) terminal and black for the (-) terminal. - + With the advent of multichannel surround sound systems, connecting all of the speakers in your system with the correct polarity remains equally important in order to preserve the proper ambience and directionality of the program material. Left Speaker Left - + Right Speaker Right - + - + Front-, Surround- or Surround Back-Channel Receiver/Amplifier Output Configuring Your Receiver or Processor Many newer Harman Kardon receivers conform to the new CEA standard and therefore use a color other than red for the (+) terminal to indicate some speaker positions: e.g., blue for surround left positive (+). However, the black terminal will always be the negative (-) connection. Please see the owner's guide for your AVR Series receiver for further details. The (+) lead of the speaker wire is often noted with a stripe or ridge. It is important to connect both speakers identically: (+) on the speaker to (+) on the amplifier and (-) on the speaker to (-) on the amplifier. Wiring "out of phase" results in thin sound, weak bass and a poor stereo image. To connect the supplied wires to the speaker terminals, unscrew the binding-post collar until the pass-through hole in the center post is visible under the collar. Insert the bare end of the wire through this hole; then screw the collar down until the connection is tight. The hole in the center of each collar is intended for use with banana-type connectors. Many receivers and processors feature programmable bass-management capability, which allows the component to output the lowest frequencies (the bass information) exclusively to a separate subwoofer speaker, or to a main speaker that is capable of handling low frequencies, or sometimes to both. During the setup process you will be asked to specify whether the speaker for a given channel is "Large" or "Small." The terms "Large" and "Small" do not refer to physical size, but to the size of the frequency range the speaker is capable of handling. When configuring your receiver or processor for the channels where HKS 2 speakers are being used, select "Small." 4 MOUNTING OPTIONS SPEAKER CONNECTIONS 5