User manual HARMAN KARDON TD4200

[. . . ] The TD4200 has been custom-designed to provide all the excitement and power of the cinema experience in your own living room. While sophisticated electronics and state-of-theart speaker components are hard at work within the TD4200, hookup and operation are simple. Color-keyed cables and connections, and simple controls make the TD4200 easy to use. To obtain maximum enjoyment from your new home theater speaker system, we urge you to take a few minutes to read through this manual. [. . . ] ENGLISH REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS 5 Speaker Placement Color-Coding System The TD4200 uses the channel color-coding system established by the Consumer Electronics Association to make setting up your home theater speaker system as easy as possible. Your system includes a set of colored stickers that may be placed near the speaker terminals of each of the four satellite speakers according to the key below. It doesn't matter which satellite speaker is used for any of the front or rear positions. (The center speaker and powered subwoofer are already color-coded for you. ) Speaker Position Sticker (or Terminal) and Cable Color Center Channel Speaker Surround Speakers White 0-0, 55 m Red Green Blue Gray Front Left Front Right Center Surround Left Surround Right Subwoofer (LFE) White Red Green Blue Gray Purple The center channel speaker should be placed slightly behind the front left and right speakers, and no more than two feet above or below the tweeters of the left and right speakers. It is often convenient to set the center speaker on top of the television set, as shown in the drawing. 1, 5-1, 85 m Subwoofer White Red Purple Front Speakers White Red The two surround speakers should be placed slightly behind the listening position and, ideally, should face each other and be at a level higher than the listeners' ears. If that is not possible, they may be placed on a wall behind the listening position, facing forward. Experiment with their placement until you hear a diffuse, ambient sound accompanying the mainprogram material heard in the front speakers. The low-frequency material reproduced by the subwoofer is mostly omnidirectional, and this speaker may be placed in a convenient location in the room. However, the best reproduction of bass will be heard when the subwoofer is placed in a corner along the same wall as the front speakers. Experiment with subwoofer placement by temporarily placing the subwoofer in the listening position and moving around the room until the bass reproduction is best. Place the subwoofer in that location. Satellites and Surrounds The front speakers should be placed the same distance from each other as they are from the listening position. The hole in the center of each collar is intended for use with banana-type connectors. Newer Harman Kardon receivers conform to the CEA standard and therefore use a color other than red or black for the (+) terminal to indicate some speaker positions: e. g. , surround left. Although the TD4200 system has red and black collars on the individual speaker terminals to denote the positive and negative connections, your system includes a colored band on the positive lead at both ends of every speaker cable and a matching colored sticker for each of the four satellite speakers, conforming to the key on page 6. The center speaker has a green (+) terminal, and the subwoofer has a purple SUB input jack. 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. 8 SPEAKER CONNECTIONS Speaker Connections Dolby Digital or DTS® (or Other Digital Surround Mode) Connection Use this installation method for Dolby Digital, DTS® or other digital surround processors: Use the line-level input jack marked "SUB" for the Low-Frequency Effects channel. Connect this jack to the LFE output or subwoofer output on your receiver or amplifier. Connect each speaker to the corresponding speaker terminals on your receiver or amplifier. Make sure that you have configured your surround-sound processor for "Subwoofer On. " The front left, front right, center and rear speakers should all be set to "Small. " ENGLISH Front Left ­ + Center ­ + Front Right ­ + SUB-TS7 Subwoofer LINE LEVEL IN SUB R L Front Left SUB/LFE Out Surround Left Center Front Right Surround Right Surround Left ­ + Receiver Surround Right ­ + SPEAKER CONNECTIONS 9 Speaker Connections Dolby Pro Logic (Non-Digital) ­ Line Level Use this installation method for Dolby Pro Logic applications (not Dolby Digital, DTS® or other digital processing), where the receiver/processor is equipped with a subwoofer output, or a volume-controlled preamp (line-) level output: Use RCA-type patch cords to connect the linelevel subwoofer output on your receiver or to amplifier either the left or right line-level input on the subwoofer. Use both the left and right inputs on the subwoofer if your receiver or processor has both left and right line-level outputs. [. . . ] The High-Cut (Low-Pass) Filter Switch 1 limits the frequencies of the audio signal inputted to the subwoofer to the low frequencies that the subwoofer reproduces best. This allows the subwoofer to perform more efficiently, and with superior bass reproduction, minimizing distortion that might occur if the subwoofer attempted to reproduce higher frequencies. When the Sub Input 4 is being used, in which case it has no effect, or 2. When the Speaker-Level Inputs 7 or the Line-Level Full-Range Inputs 5 are being used with a crossover or filter aboard the receiver or processor. [. . . ]