Home Theater. Can someone explain the speaker connections to me?? PICS

[boostNbeer]

SO I wanna build my own home stereo setup. What I dont get is how you get so many speakers to all wire up into the receiver

I want to buy this reciever

http://www.parts-express.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=250-503&ctab=2#Tabs

And the back connections look like this:

Now notice how there is connections for a "center" +/-, 2 sets of +/- for the "surround", then 2 sets of +/- connections for the "front"

What kind of setup can I have for this? Like to me that only gives me 5 speakers connections so I can only have 5 speakers total, like 2 mids, 2 tweets, and a sub?? I dont get how it works.

Is there no way to get a lot more speakers in that setup and a dedicated sub box, Im kind of lost.

Thanks

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[boostNbeer]

And the "front" speaker connections dont even look like they accept speaker wire, how do those connect??

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

Really?

You just hook up the speakers... I dont understand how you dont understand.

 

[boostNbeer]

Well how many speakers can I have? Like for most surround setups, I see 5 speakers, 5 tweeters, and a sub, how do you connect 11 speakers with only 5 connections??

And where would a dedicated sub go??

 

[Upgrayedd 10+ year member]

surround You have powered full range or fixed high pass for the front center and rear. You can not power a sub from the reciever.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

that will give you a 5.1 set up using a powered subwoofer. Fronts use banana plugs for connections...

 

[boostNbeer]

surround You have powered full range or fixed high pass for the front center and rear. You can not power a sub from the reciever.

Just this reciever wont power a sub? Some have dedicated sub outputs though right?

 

[bball09124 10+ year member]

You can connect the front speakers with banana plugs or just bare wire.

And that receiver produces power at 5 channels. You want two front towers, two rear towers or bookshelves, and one center channel. The crossover should be built in to each of the speakers, that divides the full range frequencies coming from the amp to the tweeter/mids. There should be a "sub out" on the receiver to which you run an RCA cable to a powered subwoofer. Or an external amp that powers a subwoofer.

 

[boostNbeer]

that will give you a 5.1 set up using a powered subwoofer. Fronts use banana plugs for connections...

How and where would the sub connect

 

[Upgrayedd 10+ year member]

the output that says sbwoofer. needs its own amp

 

[boostNbeer]

You can connect the front speakers with banana plugs or just bare wire.
And that receiver produces power at 5 channels. You want two front towers, two rear towers or bookshelves, and one center channel. The crossover should be built in to each of the speakers, that divides the full range frequencies coming from the amp to the tweeter/mids. There should be a "sub out" on the receiver to which you run an RCA cable to a powered subwoofer. Or an external amp that powers a subwoofer.

This kinda lost me, yes Ive got 5 chanels, and you say I want 5 "boxes", can each box have a mid and a tweet? and placed all around me, so 10 speakers total. Or do you simply need a fullrange mid and NO tweets everywhere. Trying to configure my own cabinets and such

Also, arent the crossovers built right into the reciever?

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

How and where would the sub connect

The center top black connector. It looks like it says subwoofer out.

 

[tigerf117 10+ year member]

This kinda lost me, yes Ive got 5 chanels, and you say I want 5 "boxes", can each box have a mid and a tweet? and placed all around me, so 10 speakers total. Or do you simply need a fullrange mid and NO tweets everywhere. Trying to configure my own cabinets and such
Also, arent the crossovers built right into the reciever?

The crossovers are built into the speaker cabinets themselves.

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

This kinda lost me, yes Ive got 5 chanels, and you say I want 5 "boxes", can each box have a mid and a tweet? and placed all around me, so 10 speakers total. Or do you simply need a fullrange mid and NO tweets everywhere. Trying to configure my own cabinets and such
Also, arent the crossovers built right into the reciever?

This is what the inside of a speaker box looks like. Most usually only consist of two drivers. This one have three. All three speakers connect to the blue crossover. The two wires connected to the back of the box go out and connect to your recievers + - terminals.

 

[boostNbeer]

oh ok so I actually have to buy a crossover for each "box", crossovers are no problem to wire eh? Looks like a pretty simple deal. So the reciever just sends each corner its signals and the crossover in the box does all the work and gives the speakers in that cabinet the right frequencies.....

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