BravesMG

I just bought a new home with 6 speaker prewiring in the living room. I'm hooking it up and realized that my receiver is a 7.1, so it has surround back left and right outputs.

Does it matter which of the rear outputs I connect to the rear center? I'm assuming they both send out the same audio, but I wanted to check.

I also have to decide if I want to biamp my fronts instead of using the rear center, but I can play with that when I set it all up properly.

Brian Shannon

In a 7.1 set up, the center is simply "center back" or the two rear channels.

Drexl

It will say in the manual which one to connect your back surround speaker to in a 6.1 setup. It's usually the LEFT back surround. There will also be a setting to tell it you have 6.1, not 7.1. Audyssey or similar would detect the speakers though and should set this up for you.

BravesMG

I checked the manual and it only had a 7.1 setup shown connecting the back rears. It's a Pioneer Elite VSX-92THX and the calibration probably will catch this once I get it set up, but I was surprised there wasn't a more clear answer in the manual.

If anybody wants to take a look through the manual to see if I missed the connection, here it is: http://www.manualnguide.com/dl/4793/. The help is much appreciated guys.

BravesMG

I actually found it guys, it was in really tiny print on the actual input. It was the rear left speaker, I'll play around with either wanting a 6.1 setup or keeping the fronts biamped.