Outdoor Speakers Part Number • WS5 Outdoor speakers with mounting brackets Owners Manual
Thank you for selecting M&S Systems outdoor speakers for your home. Your decision to purchase M&S Systems speakers will provide you and your family with years of listening enjoyment. This manual will provide you with the information required to install and operate your new speakers. If you have any questions that are not answered in this manual please contact your installer or M&S Systems. You may contact M&S Systems at 1-800-421-1587 for customer service and at 1-800-366-9422 for technical support.
Page 3 P ro d u c t S p e c i f i c a t i o n s The M&S Systems WS5 outdoor speakers provide a corrosion resistant, all weather design with high quality sound. The WS5 speakers offer many features including: • Aluminum grill and mounting brackets • Brass inserts and mounting hardware • 5-way gold plated binding posts • Resonance free enclosure The technical specifications for the WS5 speakers are shown in Table 1, below.
UNPACKING YOUR SPEAKERS After carefully unpacking your speakers, the carton and the packing material should be saved for possible use later. If any speaker appears to be damaged, do not attempt to repair or to connect the unit to the amplifier. Repack the speaker and notify your distributor or M&S Systems for replacement or repair. SPEAKER PLACEMENT The WS5 outdoor speakers can be mounted on an outdoor canopy or wall or placed on a shelf. They should be separated by 6 to 8 feet for good stereo separation.
Page 5 bracket (refer to Figure 1). Figure 1—Mounting bracket installation CONNECTING YOUR SPEAKERS The WS5 speakers come with 5-way, gold plated, binding posts. The binding posts are color-coded for polarity—red is positive (+) and black is negative (-). Follow the steps below for connecting your WS5 speakers: 1. Turn off the receiver or amplifier and unplug it from the power outlet. 2. Use a 2-conductor 16-gauge speaker wire (M&S part number MS16X5) for runs up to 100 feet.
FOR THE OTHER END. 3. Connect one wire from the black/negative (-) terminal of the left speaker to the black/negative () terminal on the left speaker output channel of your amplifier or receiver. NOTE: MOST SPEAKER WIRE IS COLOR CODED OR RIBBED ON ONE SIDE FOR EASY IDENTIFICATION OF THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE LEADS. 4. Connect the other wire from the red/positive (+) terminal of the left speaker to the red/positive (+) output terminal on the left channel of your amplifier or receiver. 5.
Page 7 M&S SYSTEMS Limited 2-Year No-Fault Product Warranty M&S SYSTEMS warrants for 2 years all products to be free of defects (M&S SYSTEMS honors the 10-Year No-Fault warranty for AirVac Gold power units). The warranty period begins from either (1) the date of “first user” purchase of this product or (2) the first close of escrow date on a residence in which this new product was originally installed.
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