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Author Topic: MS-100 wiring Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-13-2019 04:58 PM                     Wiring up one of these. I forget one part of it. I wired up processor outputs to monitor inputs with one ground. The amps are bi-amped so I have HF and LF + go to respective HF and LF terminals on the monitor. Do I need a ground and, if I do, take it from - from the amp?  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-14-2019 05:45 AM                     Ground is common, so one ground is enough - just connect the "+" amp terminals to the MS100. Since the MS100's ground is the same as the amplifiers' ground, you shouldn't really need even the one amp ground connection but in rare cases the monitor can have a lot of hum without one. Bridged amps use the two channels together: connect either speaker output wire to the monitor, do not connect the other to a ground terminal. If the unmonitored amp channel fails it will not be noticeable in the monitor... but I don't know of a way around that.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-14-2019 07:31 AM                     Thanks Dave.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 03-14-2019 01:27 PM                       I've had situations where the amp audio - needed to be connected to keep the system from breaking into oscillation. Only needed one connection for all the amps. Don't recall why but I considered it a safety ground. Let's suppose the cinema processor is loose in the rack for purposes of this topic. I don't know if it's still true but the amp audio input ground and the output ground as in the black banana or terminal strip are not the same. Connect them together effectively and you are in for a nasty surprise. I'm sure Guttag can explain it to us.  |  IP: Logged

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