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Re: Help a newbie with deciding m60s m80s
ClubNeon #347733 05/10/11 07:48 PM
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Indeed so in your opinion clubneon should i not even worry about any banana plug for speakers or receiver and just connect to each unit done?

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ClubNeon #347734 05/10/11 07:52 PM
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Indeed so in your opinion clubneon should i not even worry about any banana plug for speakers or receiver and just connect to each unit done?

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Nitsud #347735 05/10/11 07:58 PM
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They are nice if you're going to be unhooking things often. But if you're just going to set everything up once, there's no need.

Just be careful that there are no stray wires shorting across the posts (I've seen it happen with poorly installed bananas too).

In the end it's up to you. I like just sticking the wire behind the lug (Axiom's posts are drilled so it's even easier) and tightening it down. With the little wrench that Axiom includes for tightening the lug you can really cinch thing down (small children might be able to swing from the wire).


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ClubNeon #347736 05/10/11 08:03 PM
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If the wrench breaks, you've tightened it a tad too much.


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Ken.C #347738 05/10/11 08:15 PM
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gotcha just like mechanics 1/4 turn before breakage.. Thanks again guys

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Nitsud #347742 05/10/11 08:50 PM
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Being cheap and not seeing any sonic benefit, I previously used bare wire on both ends.

What a colossal pain the the a$$ on the receiver side. It was REALLY difficult to thread bare wire into all those narrowly-spaced connectors on the back of the receiver.

I use the nice, cheap banana plugs from Monoprice now.


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tomtuttle #347744 05/10/11 08:56 PM
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I'm where Tom used to be. I'm still cheap and use bare wire. I've realized that 10 gauge is the largest wire that I can fit into my M80s. Barely squeezes in there. I think I got it from Blue Jeans Cable, though would have been happy with Monoprice also, from what I hear.


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Nitsud #347787 05/11/11 01:40 AM
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Dustin, the room EQ technology is too complicated to be able to just "figure" what you can do. There's no provision to "tweak" the Audyssey EQ settings(although the crossover points can be raised manually); it's either on or off.

Regular electrical wire works fine for carrying electricity to a speaker too. Nothing special can do this any better. Get it in 16ga or heavier, depending on the distance of the run. For more details study this excellent explanation of the facts about speaker wire by a veteran audio professional.

JP(or anybody), if there's difficulty in inserting thick bare wire into a receiver or speaker terminal, there's no reason that the end has to be that same thickness. The resistance of the wire depends on its overall thickness taking the entire length into account, not just the thickness at the connecting end. Strands can be trimmed off the end to, for example, make it 16ga instead of 10ga without appreciably changing the resistance. It might be the equivalent of 10.01ga.


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Re: Help a newbie with deciding m60s m80s
JohnK #347810 05/11/11 03:37 AM
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Well hopefully my decision doesnt fail me with getting the dtr-20.3 rather then anything else.

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Nitsud #347905 05/11/11 09:45 PM
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If I buy a seperate amp to run my m80s am I able to use my integra dtr-20.3 5.1 receiver to run the center and four surrounds to make a 7.1 setup, also running a sub off either or?

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