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Wiring the rear speaker of a 6.1 speaker set-up using a 7.1 receiver?

I am fairly new to HT and am a littleso this question may sound dumb. On a 7.1 receiver you have a surround back R & L speaker terminal. But since I am using a 6.1 set-up I have only one rear speaker. Do I connect it to the back R or L? Any help here is appreciated.

JamesHl

Connect it to the L and tell the receiver you have only one rear center. That's how it generally works, at least.

Geoff S

Generally it is L, but do check in the manual about hardware setup, and/or the speaker setup. And set the SB Back to 1 speaker, very important.

If after setting it to 1 speaker and you still don't get sound, then you'll know to switch it (that happened to me as a stupid mistake, but oh well, I know better now).

Vincent_S

My Denon asks me on the setup screen if I am using 6 or 7 speakers. I just wired for both speakers but only used one that I had sitting around until I could afford to go buy 2 matching speakers for the back.