Bi-Amping Your Front Speakers; Bi-Wiring Your Speakers - Pioneer VSX-516 Mode D'emploi

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Bi-amping your front speakers

Bi-amping is when you connect the high
frequency driver and low frequency driver of
your speakers to different amplifiers (in this
case, to both front and surround back
terminals) for better crossover performance.
Your speakers must be bi-ampable to do this
(having separate terminals for high and low)
and the sound improvement will depend on the
kind of speakers you're using.
1 Connect your speakers as shown below.
This illustration below shows the connections
for bi-amping your front left speaker. Hook up
your front right speaker in the same way.
S
P
E
A
Front left
K
speaker
E
R
S
Hi
Lo
Since both front and surround back speaker
terminals output the same audio, it doesn't
matter which set (front or surround back) is
powering which part (Hi or Low) of the
speaker.
• Make sure that the + / – connections are
properly inserted.
2 Select the SB BIAMP setting from the ' SB.
SYSTEM' menu.
See Surround back speaker setting on page 27
to specify how you're using the surround back
speaker terminals.
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En
FRONT SURROUND CENTER
SURROUND BACK
R L R L R
A
Caution
• Most speakers with both Hi and Low
terminals have two metal plates that
connect the Hi to the Low terminals. These
must be removed when you are bi-amping
the speakers or you could severely damage
the amplifier. See your speaker manual for
more information.
• If your speakers have a removable
crossover network, make sure you do not
remove it for bi-amping. Doing so may
damage your speakers.

Bi-wiring your speakers

The reasons for bi-wiring are basically the
L
same as bi-amping, but additionally,
B
interference effects within the wire could be
reduced, producing better sound. Again, to do
this your speakers must be bi-wireable (that is
they must have separate terminals for the high
and low frequencies). When bi-wiring, make
sure you've selected SB NORM. or SB 2ND Z in
Surround back speaker setting on page 27.
• To bi-wire a speaker, connect two speaker
cords to the speaker terminal on the receiver.
Using a banana plug for the second
connection is recommended.
Caution
• Make sure you use a parallel (not series,
which are fairly uncommon) connection
when bi-wiring your speakers.
• Don't connect different speakers from the
same terminal in this way.