Cambridge Audio azur 540V - Manual (Page 12)

12 azur DVD receiver
The 540V has five surround speaker terminals and connections for an
active or a passive subwoofer. Your speaker manual will give more ideas
about placement but the diagram above is an example of placement for
a standard 5.1 system.
1. Front lleft aand rright lloudspeakers - These should be placed
equidistant to the left and right of your screen far enough apart to
ensure good stereo imaging. If they are too far apart or too close
to the corners of the room they will sound distracting and distant.
It may be desirable to experiment with the 'toe-in' of the units
(angling them towards the listening position) to optimise the front
speaker soundstage and imaging.
2. Centre cchannel lloudspeakers - Ideally your centre channel
loudspeaker needs to be positioned directly above or below your
screen, facing the listening position.
SOME NOTES ON LOUDSPEAKERS
3. Surround lleft aand rright lloudspeakers - Surrounds should be
situated roughly at listening height and facing into the listening
position. It is suggested that they are wall mounted or alternatively
placed on suitable speaker stands.
4. Subwoofer - The location of any dedicated subwoofer will greatly
affect the quantity and also the quality of the low frequencies.
Please see your subwoofer manual for detailed positioning
information.
Connection
Connect the positive (red) to positive and negative (black) to negative on
all loudspeakers. Try to keep lengths of cabling approximately equal for
the front and rear "pairs" of speakers to keep resistance equal on the
540V.
Connection of your subwoofer depends on whether it is active (ie
powered with its own mains supply) or passive (connected only by
speaker wire). If your subwoofer is active, connect it via the ‘subwoofer
audio out’ phono plug by a single phono to phono cable. If it is passive,
it should be connected by speaker cable to the ‘subwoofer loudspeaker
terminals’.