Second zone speaker b setup, Switching the speaker system, Bi-amping your front speakers – Classe Audio VSX-80TXV User Manual

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Second Zone speaker B setup

Caution

Before making or changing the connections

, switch off

the power and disconnect the power cord from the
power outlet. Plugging in components should be the
last connection you make with your system.

• Be careful not to allow any contact between speaker

wires from different terminals.

• You can use speakers with a nominal impedance

between 6

to 16

(please see

Switching the

speaker impedance

on page 55 if you plan to use

speakers with an impedance of less than 8

).

After selecting

2nd Zone

in

Surround back speaker

setting

on page 33, you can use the speakers connected

to the (surround back) B speaker terminals on the rear
panel to listen to stereo playback in another room. See

Switching the speaker system

below for the listening

options with this setup.

1

Connect a pair of speakers to the surround back

speaker terminals on the rear panel.

Connect them the same way you connected your
speakers in

Installing your speaker system

on page 17.

Make sure to review

Placing the speakers

on page 18

when placing the speakers in another room.

2

Select ‘2nd Zone’ from the ‘Surr Back System’ menu.

See

Surround back speaker setting

on page 33 to do this.

Switching the speaker system

If you selected

2nd Zone

in

Surround back speaker setting

on page 33, three speaker system settings are possible
using the

SPEAKERS

button. If you selected

Normal (SB)

or

Front Bi-Amp

, the button will simply switch your main

speaker system on or off. The options below are for the

2nd Zone

setting only.

1

Use the SPEAKERS button on the front panel to

select a speaker system setting.

As mentioned above, if you have selected

Normal (SB)

,

the button will simply switch your main speaker system
(A) on or off.

Press repeatedly to choose a speaker system option:

SP

A

– Sound is output from speaker system A and

the same signal is output from the pre-out terminals.

SP

B

– Sound is output from the two speakers

connected to speaker system B. Multichannel
sources will not be heard. The same signal is output
from the surround back channel pre-out terminals.

SP

AB

– Sound is output from speaker system A (up

to 5 channels, depending on the source), the two
speakers in speaker system B, and the subwoofer.
The sound from speaker system B will be the same as
the sound from speaker system A (multichannel
sources will be downmixed to 2 channels).

SP

(off) – No sound is output from the speakers. The

same sound is output from the pre-out terminals
(including from your subwoofer, if connected) as
when selecting speaker system A (above).

Bi-amping your front speakers

Bi-amping is when you connect the high frequency driver
and low frequency driver of your speakers to different
amplifiers (in this case, to both front and surround back
terminals) for better crossover performance. Your
speakers must be bi-ampable to do this (having separate
terminals for high and low) and the sound improvement
will depend on the kind of speakers you’re using.

1

Connect your speakers as shown below.

This illustration below shows the connections for bi-
amping your front left speaker. Hook up your front right
speaker in the same way.

Since both front and surround back speaker terminals
output the same audio, it doesn’t matter which set (front
or surround back) is powering which part (

High

or

Low

)

of the speaker.

• Make sure that the

+

/

connections are properly

inserted.

2

Select the ‘Front Bi-Amp’ setting from the ‘Surr Back

System’ menu.

See

Surround back speaker setting

on page 33 to specify

how you’re using the surround back speaker terminals.

Note

1 • The subwoofer output depends on the settings you made in

Manual speaker setup

on page 37. However, if

SP

B

is selected above, no sound is heard

from the subwoofer (the LFE channel is not downmixed).

• Depending on the settings in

Surround back speaker setting

on page 33 output from the surround back pre-out terminals may change.

• All speaker systems (except

2nd Zone

connections) are switched off when headphones are connected.

SPEAKERS

A

B

R

L

R

L

R

L (

Single)

FRONT

CENTER

SURROUND

SURROUND BACK /

SELECTABLE

SEE INSTRUCTION MANUAL

High

Low

Front left

speaker

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