User manual HARMAN KARDON HKTS 11 [HKTS 11CP]

[. . . ] ® Power for the Digital Revolution. ® HKTS 11 HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEM OWNER'S MANUAL HKTS 11 3 4 4 5 7 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 13 13 14 15 HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEM Safety Information Introduction Included SUB-TS11 Subwoofer Amplifier Panel Controls and Connections Speaker Placement Color-Coding System Mounting Options Speaker Connections Speaker-Level Connection Guide Dolby Digital or DTS (or Other Digital Surround Mode) Connection Dolby Pro Logic (Non-Digital) ­ Line Level Dolby Pro Logic (Non-Digital) ­ Speaker Level Operation Volume Additional Bass Adjustments Troubleshooting Specifications Please register your product on our Web site at www. harmankardon. com. Note: You'll need the serial number of your new home theater speaker system. At the same time, you can choose to be notified about our new products and/or special promotions. Typographical Conventions In order to help you use this manual, certain conventions have been used. [. . . ] Placing the subwoofer close to a wall or in a corner will reinforce the low frequencies, and may create a "boomy" sound. You may wish to experiment over time by placing the subwoofer where the listener normally sits and then walking around the room until the low frequencies sound best. Place the subwoofer in that spot. SPEAKER PLACEMENT 7 Wall MOUNTING OPTIONS Satellites and Surrounds 23mm or 3/4" 23mm or 3/4" (M6­1. 25P or 1/4"­20) Remove Stand 15mm or 1/2" may The satellite speakers be placed on a shelf. They may be wallmounted using the supplied brackets. Remove Stand Wall-Mounting Wall Plate Unscrew the bolt that attaches the black shelf stand to the bottom of the speaker. Store the stand and bolt in a safe place, in case they are needed for a future installation. Wires to Speaker 15mm or 1/2" Wall Wires to Speaker Terminal Cover 23mm or 3/4" (M6­1. 25P or 1/4"­20) Wall Plate Terminal Cover Wall Plate Wall Mount the wallView Remove bracket attachment Stand plate on the wall in on top: a round screw hole, and an arcthe desired loca- 15mm or 1/2" shaped opening in front of it. If possible, From or cable should be 3/4" threaded through the arcOverhead (M6­1. 25P Wall position the or 1/4"­20) View Plate shaped opening, not the screw hole. speakers so that the mounting screws Attach the bracket to the wall plate by insert(not included; use size #8) may be ing the tab at the top of the wall plate into installed directly into a wooden wall stud. the slot on top of the bracket and snapping If that is not possible, use optional Speaker wall Wires to the bracket onto the wall plate. anchors that are rated to support at least Wall Plate Thread the cable through the round opening twenty-five pounds. The customer is Remove Stand responsible for proper selection and use Coverin the terminal cover, and then insert the Terminal speaker wires into the terminals on the of mounting hardware, available through 15mm or 1/2" hardware stores, to properly and safely underside of the speaker, remembering to observe the correct polarity (see page 9). Place the terminal cover over the opening Referring to the speaker connection instrucon the underside of the speaker so that it fits tions on pages 9 through 12, thread the appropriate speaker cable through the open- flush against the speaker and covers the terWall Plate Wire From minals, with its round opening exposing the ing to Speaker Overhead wall plate, and then in the bottom of the Wires Wall View through the back of the bracket, as shown in threaded insert. The bracket fits through the Plate round opening in the terminal cover. The bracket has two openings Terminal Cover Overhead Wire From Wall Plate Insert the supplied bracket bolt up through the bottom of the bracket and terminal cover, and screw it into the threaded insert on the underside of the speaker. The bolt should be snug, but not so tight as to prevent the bracket from pivoting. The wall-mounted speaker may be pivoted from side to side; however, the bracket is not designed to be tilted up or down, and attempting to tilt it will damage the bracket and possibly the wall, which would not be covered by your warranty. Wall Plate Wall 23mm or 3/4" (M6­1. 25P or 1/4"­20) 8 MOUNTING OPTIONS SPEAKER CONNECTIONS Speaker-Level 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. The SUB-TS11 subwoofer should not be connected to an AC power source until all speaker wire connections have been made. 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. This system is intended to help you ensure that the speaker in each location is connected to the correct terminals on your receiver or amplifier. The (+) lead of the speaker wire is indicated with a stripe and has the colored band corresponding to the speaker's position. It is important to connect all 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. 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. [. . . ] Make sure none of the speaker wires are frayed, cut or punctured, and that no wires are touching each other. · In Dolby Digital or DTS mode, make sure that the receiver/processor is configured so that the speaker in question is enabled. · Turn off all electronics and switch the speaker in question with one of the other speakers that is working correctly. Turn everything back on, and determine whether the problem is in the same place: i. e. , the speaker that was working previously now has no sound and the speaker that was not working now sounds fine; or whether it has moved: i. e. , the speaker that was not working still has no sound and the speaker that was working is still fine. [. . . ]