nohbody Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I acquired these speakers as an open item for a good deal. I did not recieve an owners manual, and the online pdf file didn't answer my question. The SF-3 has two sets of red-black inputs for wire in the back. I noticed that when I connected them to the lower set, the woofers worked, but the highs didn't. vice versa when i connected to the top set. I'm fairly daft when it comes to this home audio stuff. So baby steps would be good as to how to get "full" sound out of these speakers. thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Sounds like you are missing the jumpers that connect both sets of posts. You must have them in place to get sounds out of all drivers. The only other option if you can't get the jumpers is to bi-wire your speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 The dual sets of posts are for bi-wiring your speakers. Now, I haven't seen the rear panels for the Synergy speakers yet, but I'm assuming there should be a flattened metal piece (perhaps gold in color) that came with your towers that bridges, or connects, the two sets of binding posts together. This is what you need to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meuge Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 You're missing the jumpers to connect them. If you're using bare wire to connect the speakers, the easiest way to go about fixing the problem is to buy a pair of banana plugs and terminate your connections. Then take 2 pieces (per speaker) of the same wire as you're using to hook up the speakers (you will need about 3 inches I think), strip 0.5" from each end, unscrew the binding posts in the back of the speakers to expose a 0.25" thick cylinder inside... it should have a hole in it - stuff the exposed wire into the hole and then tighten the binding post. Use this technique to connect the red binding posts to each other, and the black binding posts to each other (don't cross the wires). Then stick the banana plugs into the binding posts from above (you might have to remove a small plastic covering disk to expose the hole) and you're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nohbody Posted October 24, 2004 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 Thanks for the quick replies! What is bi-wiring? Since the speakers were an open item when I bought them , I did not recieve that bridging piece you mentioned. I was thinking of bridging the connection by running some wire from the top to the bottom posts and then the bottom post back to the amp. Please let me know if this is a good or bad idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMcGoo Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 As was already pointed out, there should be "jumpers" on the speaker terminals that connect black to black and red to red. You can make the jumpers from speaker wire and crimp on spade connectors. The alternative is to bi-wire your speakers, i.e., to run a separate pair of speaker wires to each set of terminals. There is little if any audible advantage to a bi-wire setup. Plain 12 awg stranded zip cord makes the best speaker wire and is realtively inexpensive. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nohbody Posted October 24, 2004 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 Muhahaha... got 'em working. Thanks for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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