S500 Series S512 S515 S525 S518

S500 Series S512 S515 S525 S518
Question: What’s the impedance of these speakers?
Answer: The entire S line has an 8 ohm impedance throughout.
Question: Will I need to pick up a crossover to use the subwoofer with
my system? I don’t want to send potentially damaging frequencies to it.
Answer: One of the super cool features of this system is the S518
subwoofer has a built in Low Pass Filter, thus removing one more
expensive piece of gear from your setup. This filter will strip out all your
high and mid frequencies so all it has to focus on are those low
frequencies that it recreates so well.
Question: How many of the these speakers can I daisy chain together? I
want to bring down the house!
Answer: This really depends on your amplifier; there is a limit to how
low of an ohm load you can run on each channel. Some amplifiers can
go all the way down to a 2 ohm load and there are some that require an
8 ohm load. After you find out what your amplifier requires you can
find out how many you can hook up to each amplified channel. For
example two of the S500 series speakers wired in parallel would bring
the ohm load down to 4ohms and 4 S500 series speakers wired in
parallel would bring the ohm load down to 2 ohms.
Question: Well how do I go about hooking up multiple speakers to one
channel of my amplifier?
Answer: You would make a connection like this by coming out of the
amplifier to the input of one of your speakers, and then out of that
speaker’s THRU jack into the input of your next speaker. See picture
below.
Question: I would like to use the subwoofer in addition to my system to
make those lows really move the dance floor. How do I add that to my
system?
Answer: This is a great way to take some of the work off of your top
speakers. The hookup for this would basically be accomplished by
coming out of your amplifier to your top speakers and then coming out
of the THRU output of the top speaker into the input of your
subwoofer. Then inside the unit the low-pass filter would get rid of any
high and mid frequency that way it only has to re-create the low
frequencies that subs do so well. See picture below for a diagram.
Question: I keep hearing my high end cut out? I’ll be playing my set and
all of a sudden the highs vacate the area. Any idea what is going on?
Answer: There is a protection circuit built into the S512, S515, and S525
to protect their high-frequency drivers from excessive power. When
tripped, the protection circuit substantially reduces the power to the
HF driver, after the driver cools to a safe operating temperature, the
protection circuit resets and the normal operations resumes. This
generally means you are running them too hot, and may need to
reduce the power to the loudspeaker. Driving your speakers past this
limiting circuit many times and repeatedly could be damaging to your
speakers as you may be pushing them past their power handling
capability.