Option two:
Take the speaker cable from your amplifier or receiver
and plug it into the top-most binding posts on the back
of the speaker. These are located above the amplifier.
Next connect those binding posts to either the left or
right input terminals on the RS1000 amplifier (4). Using
the supplied jumper cable consisting of banana plugs on
one end and spades on the other, insert the banana plug
end into the left or right high level input on the RS1000
amplifier. Place the spade end onto the binding post
and tighten down. If your speaker cable is terminated
with spades as well, it is OK to ‘piggyback’ the two
spades on top of each other. If your speaker cable is
terminated with banana plugs, you can simply insert it
into the end of the binding post.
Either option works, try them both and use what you
prefer.
Set your receiver or pre/pro to MAIN speakers = LARGE.
SUB = NO.
Adjust the RS1000 controls the same for any of the
connection methods:
Adjust the controls on the back of the RS1000 amp to
your liking. The top-most knob is frequency. This con-
trols the highest frequency that the woofer will be play-
ing. Most like it around 120Hz but experiment and see
what you like.
The center knob is phase. A basic setting here is 90 de-
grees (12 o'clock). To properly set this, you need to per-
form a frequency sweep. If you don't know how to do
this, the procedure is detailed later in this manual.
The final knob is gain (volume). Set this so that you get
a nice 'foundational' bass lift but not too much that it's
over powering. Start around 12 o’clock and adjust from
there. Play several different CDs and DVDs. You want
the system to sound balanced with a seamless blend be-
tween the main part of the speaker and the woofer.
Using R-DES
The goal here is to get the line level or pre-out signal to
R-DES and then to the RS1000 amplifier.
If you have a pre/pro, on the LEFT MAIN pre-out, install
a male to female-female Y-splitter (available from
AV123). This will allow you to split the pre-out signal
across two cables. Run one cable to your amplifier as
you normally would. Run the other cable to the LEFT
input on the back of the R-DES device. Run another ca-
ble from the LEFT output on the back of the R-DES de-
vice to the LEFT low-level input on the RS1000 amplifier
(6). Repeat for the RIGHT.
If you have a receiver, you do essentially the same thing
but you do not need the Y-splitter. Simply run the cable
from your pre-out to R-DES and continue as described
above. If you do not have pre-outs available on your
receiver or if your receiver shuts down the internal am-
plifier when a cable is connected to the pre-out, you can
not run R-DES in this manner. You can however run a
cable from your subwoofer out to an input on the R-DES
device. If you are running a subwoofer along with the
RS1000’s, you will likely need the aforementioned Y-
splitter unless you have multiple sub outs.
There are many ways to install R-DES into a system with
RS1000’s with and without subs. See the next pages in
this manual for wire layouts of various methods. Re-
member, you can design your own connection scheme;
you are not limited to those shown here!
