Kenwood HTB-S310 User Manual

HTB-S310

Kenwood Fineline

™

Quick Start Guide

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Congratulations!

The HTB-S310 Kenwood Fineline™ Home Theater System will make enjoying movies
and music at home more fun than ever. This sheet will show you how to connect the
speakers to the receiver, and how to adjust your system to work best in your entertain­ment room. To learn how to operate your receiver, please read and follow the instruc­tion manual included in its box. If you’re also connecting other equipment, such as a
DVD player, TV, VCR, satellite tuner or other source component, use the receiver’s
manual in combination with the manuals that came with those components.

Placing Your Speakers

Place the speakers as shown in the diagram below. While you’re setting the speak­ers 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.

• You can hang the speakers on the wall using heavy-duty picture hangers.

• 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. Make sure that the side-firing woofer isn’t blocked by furniture or walls.

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, the
speaker wire and the 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 Volume 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.

Matching the Receiver to the Speaker System

Your receiver has circuitry that tailors its performance for different speaker
types, overcoming the mis-match that is common between subwoofers and satellite
speakers. After performing this adjustment, dialog spoken by male actors as well as
music will sound more natural and life-like on your HTB-S310 system.

1. Press the SETUP button twice. The display will read “SP SYSTEM”, and will then
scroll to “CUSTOM”.

2. Press the MULTI CONTROL button repeatedly until the display reads “HTB 1”.

4. Press the SETUP button. The display will change to “TEST TONE”.

5. Press the MULTI CONTROL button repeatedly until the display reads “EXIT”.

5. Press the SETUP button to exit the Setup mode.

The receiver’s electronics are now matched to your HTB-S310 system’s speakers.

Balancing the Speakers

Your receiver comes with the speaker volume settings pre-balanced. If you have
positioned the speakers as shown in the diagram your system will create a spacious
surround sound environment right out of the box with no further adjustment required.

If your room is arranged differently than shown in the diagram, or if you simply want
to fine-tune your system’s performance, you can easily change the volumes of the
individual speakers to get a better balance:

1. Press the SETUP button repeatedly until the display reads “TEST TONE”.

2. Press the SETUP button once more. The display will change to “AUTO”.

3. Press the MULTI CONTROL button. The display will change to “MANUAL”.

4. Press the SETUP button once. The display will change to “L 0dB”, the left
speaker’s icon will flash and you will hear test noise through the speaker.

5. Use the and MULTI CONTROL buttons to increase and decrease the
speaker’s volume.

6. Press the SETUP button to change to the center speaker, and repeat Steps 4 – 6
for each speaker.

7. Do not be concerned with the volume level readout on the display while you’re
adjusting the speakers—this is for reference purposes only. However, once you
have balanced all the speakers you should write each speaker’s volume setting
down here for reference:

8. To exit the Setup mode, press the SETUP button once, press the MULTI CONTROL
button twice and then press the SETUP button once more.

Setting the Speaker Distances

This last step adjusts the timing of all the speakers so that their sound arrives at the
listening location at the proper time.

1. Measure the distance from each speaker to your seat. Write the distances down.

2. Press the SETUP button 7 times. The display will read “DISTANCE”.

3. Press the SETUP button once more. The display will change to “10FT 3.0M” and
the left speaker icon will flash.

4. Press the or MULTI CONTROL buttons until the distance on the display
matches the distance from the left speaker to your listening position.

5. Press the SETUP button again to repeat Step 4 for the center speaker, and then

for the rest of the system’s speakers.

Note: There is no distance setting for the subwoofer

6. When you’ve finished setting the speaker distances, press the SETUP button 4

more times to exit the Setup mode.

D

Speaker Connections

LEFT

FRONT

SUBWOOFERRIGHT

SURROUND

LEFT

SURROUND

CENTERRIGHT

FRONT

GREEN

DOT

GREEN

BAND

GRAY

DOT

GRAY

BAND

BLUE

DOT

BLUE

BAN

RED
DOT

RED

BAND

WHITE

DOT

WHITE
BAND