Connecting the AR S112PS Powered Subwoofer

Connecting the Acoustic Research S112PS Powered Subwoofer to the Receiver   

Connecting your Subwoofer

IMPORTANT: When you make connections, make sure that the power switches of all components including the subwoofer are OFF.

Audio Cables

If you are connecting the Subwoofer into a system made up of separate components (pre amp and power amps) you will need audio cables long enough to reach the subwoofer from the pre-amplifier and the power amplifier.

Speaker Wire

Typical Speaker wire has a pair of separate conductors with insulating jackets that are molded together. We recommend that you use 16-gauge speaker wire for hooking your receiver to your front speakers. To make connections to the subwoofer in parallel with the front speakers easier, the speaker wire connecting the receiver to the subwoofer can be smaller (higher gauge number) since the subwoofer does not draw large amounts of power through these wires.

+ to red terminal ( Sometimes this wire will have a color stripe, ridges or copper) 

- to black terminal  ( plain or silver)

Polarity

All speakers in a system must be connected with the same polarity. Speaker wire is marked for polarity so that you can identify which wire in the pair is which. Polarity is shown by a color stripe on the insulation, by ridges molded into the insulation, or by the color of the wires- one copper and one silver.

Strip the insulation from the speaker wire ends to reveal the bare conductors before connecting to receiver, subwoofer, or speaker terminals

IMPORTANT: Always connect the red + terminal on the receiver to the red + terminal on the subwoofer and the black (-) terminal on the receiver to the black (-) terminal on the subwoofer. The same is true for hooking the receiver outputs to the front speakers.. red + to red +, and black - to black -

IMPORTANT: Use option 1 OR option 2, but NOT both.

 Option 1

• Connect speaker wires fro the receiver's front left and Right speaker outputs to the Subwoofer's SPEAKER IN terminals.
• Connect left channel to left and right channel to right.
• The connections to the subwoofer are in parallel with the wires from your receiver to your front speaker.

 Option 2

• Connect a pair of audio cables from the pre-amp's output jacks to the Subwoofer's LINE IN jacks.
• Connect Left channel to Left and Right channel to Right.
• Connect a pair of Audio cables from the Subwoofer's LINE OUT jacks to the power amplifier's input jacks. Connect Left channel to Left and Right channel to Right.
• If your pre-amp, receiver or processor has a subwoofer or mono output jack that is controlled by the master volume control, use a single audio cable to connect that output to the subwoofer's LINE IN jack. No audio cables from the Subwoofer's LINE OUT jack are needed in this setup option. 

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