Speaker ohm question: How can I hook up my Klipsch F-2 speaker to my Harman Kardon receiver?

Question

I have a set of Klipsch F-2 floorstanding speakers. They are both 8ohms each. They also both have two speaker inputs on each one. On one I use the top terminals and the full range of the speaker works. On the second, if I use the top, only the tweeter works, if I use the bottom, only the woofers work. I am going to guess that the crossover is broke???

I have a Harman Kardon AVR-445 receiver. It puts out 65watts for each of the 7 channels at 8ohms. I am only using 5 (FL, Center, FR, RL, RR).

Is there any way I can hook up this speaker so that I get the full range of output it should have?

Could I connect 2 pos and 2 neg wires to the same input on the receiver, and then split them to the 2 ports on the speaker?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

That speaker probably just has a jumper wire internally so you can bi-amp it if you want to.

To get by until you fix it, you can hook your speaker wire up on one post, and run some more wire from that post to the other one so the whole thing will work.   Won't hurt a thing.

Which is basically what your idea is.   It'll work fine.

Answer 2

Leaving the jumper in is the correct thing to do.

Higher end equipment often gives you separate inputs for each driver on a speaker.  Just leave the jumper hooked up and it will work exactly like speakers with just 1 set of inputs.