Adding a power amp to your home stereo is a great way of improving the sound and making it even more impressive. When you're staring at that big, tangled mess of wires in the back of your receiver, it can seem a little intimidating, but hooking it up is quite simple once you get organized.
Instructions
1. Shut off all your components.
2. Plug RCA cables into the pre-outs on your receiver or preamplifier. Use one RCA cable to connect each speaker that will be powered by the amplifier (i.e. front left, front right, center, etc.).
3. Plug the other end of each RCA cable into the input on your amplifier for the corresponding speaker.
4. Measure the distance to all of your speakers and cut your speaker wire to size.
5. Separate the strands of speaker wire on the ends of each individual wire. Strip off about 1/2 inch of bare wire from each strand.
6. Twist the end of the speaker wire to form one solid wire from the many individual strands. Alternately, use connectors such as banana plugs or spades.
7. Locate the output terminals for your first speaker and connect one strand to the negative and one to the positive. Your amplifier likely uses binding post-style connections, which require you to unscrew the terminal to reveal a hole, place the wire in the hole, then screw the nut on tightly.
8. Run the wire to the speaker and connect the negative side to the negative terminal and the positive to the positive terminal.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each speaker that you plan to power with the amplifier.
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