When they say the speaker wires have a propriatary plug on them, does it mean you must use the wires supplied. My home was prewired for rear channel.
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Hayes S.,That means we recommend using the wires included in the box. You may be able to use the wires depending on the gauge of pre-installed speaker wire and distance, but since there is a special input that connects the wire to the system for easy set-up, the included wires are designed to work with the system.Splicing the wires may work if you want to use your system and the wire gauges are the same, but without knowing more, it's difficult to know if your existing wiring is compatible.--Mr. S
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Hayes S., That means we recommend using the wires included in the box. You may be able to use the wires depending on the gauge of pre-installed speaker wire and distance, but since there is a special input that connects the wire to the system for easy set-up, the included wires are designed to work with the system. Splicing the wires may work if you want to use your system and the wire gauges are the same, but without knowing more, it's difficult to know if your existing wiring is compatible. --Mr. S
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The wires are only wired to the connector on the one end. They are bare on the other end. You can clip that end into the provided speakers, other speakers, or (as we did) tape them to the existing wires for our installed speakers.
1990676
the advice I found, and only after trying it with Bi-wired with my receiver, was unless you actually have two amps to power the speaker, wire it with the bridge in place via the single channel. You won't notice enough change with it bi-wired, and you only end up losing a pair of channels that you could otherwise use for rear surround or a second zone.
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The speakers are standard wiring so they shouldn't be an issue with your prewiring. As for the sub, nothing appeared to be different, however, could not say for sure since I don't know your prewire configuration. As a side note, I recommend a Harmon Kardon reciever so the sub can be turned off when the system is turned off. We currently have a pioneer reciever and we have to manually shut off the reciever.
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Depending on your usage if you talking about a home theater usage you should look into getting a subwoofer home theater speaker , this particular speaker is more for car audio usage , but if you want use it as a home theater application it should be a problem it has wire connections on the back it .. Hope this helps
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No, they mean surround like a satellite around the earth. You can buy a wireless unit to make them wireless. Wireless are more for just the two back speakers. But one thing to know as that they will still need to be plugged into the wall and wires will still have to go to the back speakers if you buy a wireless unit. Like a small box that will give the back speakers power and a signal will be plugged into the back wall with wires going to those back speakers. But with a wireless unit the wires will not have to go from the stereo/power unit to the back speakers. One note, I own these speakers and they are very awesome. The wires were easy to hide. Hope I helped:)
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No, my audio contractor just marked the area where the speaker wire needed to come out of the wall and the drywall installers were careful of that location. So no, i can't see a situation where you would really need it.
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You will need speaker wire to go to all the speakers. I would suggest that you extend the wire antenna for better reception of radio signals. If you are in a remote area you will need an external antenna system, and finally, you will need the peripheral input devices such as record player, cassette player, CD player and perhaps TV audio inputs...all of these will need cables / wires to be connected to the Receiver amplifier. Good luck. I do not recall what provisions there are for external antennae.
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Yes, you will need speaker wires. I hooked up monster cables. These are great speakers!
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the stripes would be on wires, if you mean the jacks, then those are the rear jacks and they should already be wired for correct positive and negative. If you're wiring your speaker wires to jacks for connection, I'm not sure which way it would go, sorry.
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The speaker dictates the power your amp puts out not the other way around. The speaker draws the power. So just wire it normal and all will be fine.
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I also need help with this. My new home is wired for speakers but has standard speaker wire. Anyway to get the plugs for this system to add on?
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No it is not wireless and the wires they provided are pretty short, so actually your surround sound rear speakers are pretty close to the front speakers at its maximum extension. Further my base speakers went out about a year after I purchased the unit and I really did not use it that often enough to justify the money paid for it. I contacted the manufacturers for replacement of the base speaker as everything connects to the base speaker and their reply is for me to pay for a whole complete set and use the satellite speakers for replacement. So they are just junk lying around in my study and I do not propose to buy from this company again. No it is not wireless and the wires they provided are pretty short, so actually your surround sound rear speakers are pretty close to the front speakers at its maximum extension. Further my base speakers went out about a year after I purchased the unit and I really did not use it that often enough to justify the money paid for it. I contacted the manufacturers for replacement of the base speaker as everything connects to the base speaker and their reply is for me to pay for a whole complete set and use the satellite speakers for replacement. So they are just junk lying around in my study... » Read More No it is not wireless and the wires they provided are pretty short, so actually your surround sound rear speakers are pretty close to the front speakers at its maximum extension. Further my base speakers went out about a year after I purchased the unit and I really did not use it that often enough to justify the money paid for it. I contacted the manufacturers for replacement of the base speaker as everything connects to the base speaker and their reply is for me to pay for a whole complete set and use the satellite speakers for replacement. So they are just junk lying around in my study and I do not propose to buy from this company again. « Show Less
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They work well as either front or rear speakers. I use a jbl wireless transmitter so I would not have to run wire.
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You can use the wires in the walls. I did not use the wires that came with the speakers. I purchased mine and installed when finishing my basement.
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Yes, it will power 2 rear surround speakers and give you a left and right channel. And yes you do have to run a wire from each speaker to the receiver unit. I should mention that I haven't been happy with this purchase because the wireless kit causes my rear speakers to make a loud popping sound when the surround sound goes off and on (e.g., when watching a show in surround and a commercial comes on that isn't in surround sound the pop occurs.)
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No. You simply hook up your speaker wires to terminals on the back. In my case, speaker wires stripped back with just a wire nipper.
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Sorry, I'm a newbie at home theater stuffs, but why do we need a separate "subwoofer cable"? Won't the speaker wires work? I'm using a HTiB and they all use one type of speaker cables, even the subwoofer. I'm just curious as I'm about to get this system and have to learn how to set it up with a receiver. Thanks.