HTB-S715DV
Kenwood Fineline
™
Quick Start Guide
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Congratulations!
The HTB-S715DV Kenwood Fineline™ Gaming Home Theater System will make enjoy-
ing video games, movies and music at home more fun than ever. This sheet will
show you how to connect your speakers and DVD player to the receiver, and how to
operate the HTB-S715DV’s unique gaming features. To learn how to operate your
receiver and DVD player, please read and follow the instruction manuals included in
their boxes. If you’re also connecting other equipment, such as a game console, TV,
VCR, satellite tuner or other source component, use the receiver’s manual in combi-
nation with the manuals that came with those components.
Assembling the Front Speakers
Important: Do not connect the speaker wires to the receiver until after you have
completely assembled the speakers.
1. Using the large black screws, attach the speaker bases to the bottoms of the
speakers as shown in the diagram below.
CAUTION: The base is heavy.
2. Feed approx. 12” of speaker wire through the hole in the rear of the base, then up
through the hole in the base’s bottom, as shown in the diagram below.
• Use the wire with the white bands for the left speaker; use the wire with the red
bands for the right speaker (see the large diagram to the right).
3. Position and connect the speakers as described in the following sections.
Placing Your Speakers
Place the speakers as shown in the diagram below. While you’re setting the speak-
ers up, keep these points in mind:
• If the subwoofer causes discoloration of the TV picture, move it away from the TV
until the discoloration disappears.
• Since the center speaker is magnetically shielded, you can place it right on top of
the TV without worrying about picture discoloration.
• Placing the subwoofer next to a wall yields more deep bass output than placing
it away from a wall. Placing the subwoofer in a corner yields the deepest bass
output overall.
Note: The center and surround speakers can be hung on walls using the included wall-
mount hardware. See pages 4 – 5 of the KS-908EX Instruction Manual for details.
Connecting Your Speakers
Important: Do not plug the receiver’s power cord into an AC outlet
until you have properly connected all of the speakers.
Connect the speakers as shown in the large diagram to the right.
To make connecting the speakers easier, we have color-coded the speakers,
speaker wire and terminals on the receiver, and pre-stripped the insulation from the
ends of the wires.
Connect the speaker wire with the colored bands to the correspondingly colored
terminals on the speaker and receiver.
Important: Insert the wires with the white stripes into the colored connectors;
insert the plain wires into the black connectors.
DO NOT PUSH THE WIRE TOO FAR INTO THE SPEAKER TERMINALS AS THIS WILL
NOT ALLOW THE WIRE TO MAKE PROPER CONTACT.
The subwoofer connects to the receiver using the audio cable:
• Connect one end of the audio cable to the input connector on the subwoofer labeled
LINE INPUT
, and connect the other end to the connector on the receiver labeled
SUB
WOOFER PRE OUT
.
Using Your Subwoofer
Subwoofer VVolume C
Control
Initially, set the subwoofer’s volume knob to the 11 o’clock position. During normal
operation you will use the receiver’s subwoofer volume control to adjust the
subwoofer volume. If the receiver’s subwoofer volume control won’t go loud or soft
enough, re-adjust the subwoofer’s volume knob to compensate. See the receiver’s
instruction manual for details on using the receiver’s subwoofer volume control.
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Speaker Connections