HKTS 5 - Harman Kardon Audio Service Manual (repair manual). Page 3

HKTS 5

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Introduction, Description and Features, and 

Included Items

Thank you for purchasing the harman kardon

®

 HKTS 5 speaker system, with which 

you’re about to begin many years of listening enjoyment. The HKTS 5 has been custom 

designed to provide all the excitement and power of the cinema experience in your own 

living room.
While sophisticated electronics and state-of-the-art speaker components are hard at 

work within the HKTS 5, hookup and operation are simple. Color-keyed cables and 

connections and simple controls make the HKTS 5 easy to use.
To obtain maximum enjoyment from your new home theater speaker system, we urge you 

to take a few minutes to read through this manual. It will help ensure that the connections 

you make to your receiver (or preamp/processor), amplifier and other devices are correct. 

In addition, a few minutes spent learning the functions of the various controls will enable 

you to take advantage of all the power and refinement the HKTS 5 is able to deliver.
If you have any questions about this product, its installation or its operation, please 

contact your dealer, the best local source of information.

The HKTS 5 is a complete six-piece home theater speaker system that includes:

 

• An 8-inch (200mm), 60-watt powered subwoofer

 

• Four identical, two-way, satellite speakers for the front left, front right, surround 

left and surround right speaker positions

 

• A dedicated, voice-matched, dual-driver center speaker

 

• Shelf stands and wall-mount brackets for the satellite speakers and a wall-

mount bracket for the center speaker

 

• All of the cables you need to connect all of the speakers to your receiver or 

preamp/processor and amplifier

The speaker cables all use a color-coding system to conform to the Consumer Electronics 

Association (CEA

®

) standard. This color-coding system minimizes confusion when 

connecting the speakers, especially when the HKTS 5 system is used with a harman 

kardon receiver.
Shelf stands and wall-mount brackets are included for the satellite and center speakers, 

and shelf stands are included for the satellite speakers. Optional HTFS 2 floor stands are 

available separately from your harman kardon dealer.
harman kardon engineers invented the high-fidelity receiver fifty years ago. With state-

of-the-art features and time-honored circuit designs, the HKTS 5 is a perfect complement 

to a harman kardon receiver or any home theater system.

One HKTS 160SUB subwoofer

One center-channel speaker

Four satellite speakers: a front left speaker, a front right speaker and two rear surround-

sound speakers (shown with included shelf stands attached).

Four wall-mount brackets for satellite speakers

One wall-mount bracket for center-channel speaker

One LFE (low-frequency effects) for connection to the subwoofer (LFE cable has purple 

connectors)

Three six-meter (19.7-foot) speaker cables for connection to front satellites (red and 

white) and to center speaker (green)

Two 12-meter (39.4-foot) speaker cables for connection from receiver to rear surround-

sound satellites (gray and blue)