Quick question about wiring my first home theater

[Craft23]

So setting up my first system and just wondering why does my speaker have 4 terminals (like pictured), do I need to connect wire to all 4? If not does it matter which two I pick.

 

[lovinthehd]

As long as those connecting straps between the pos/neg terminals are in place it doesn't matter which two (of the neg or pos) you use but you only need to use two of them; the four are there mostly for marketing purposes (bi-wiring or passive bi-amping....try this article http://www.audioholics.com/frequent-questions/the-difference-between-biamping-vs-biwiring)

 

[mannye]

What he said. If you take the jumpers off then one set of terminals will be for the tweeter and the other for the woofer. It's fun to try if you have an extra amplifier, but even if only bi amping passively, it gets cable-heavy. A splitter from the preamp, two ICs for each channel and two extra speaker cables. With 5.1 or 7.1 it quickly becomes A LOT of cable.

That said, I did it once and I felt the sound improved. And that was with only passive bi-amping where you're not by-passing the internal crossover network. Active bi-amping is a much more involved affair that employs active external crossovers in front of the amps sending only the desired signal level to each amp and then to the speakers. This is supposed to be the ultimate in great sound quality, but I've never been able to do it at home.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Is this a question about wiring your room, or just the speakers?

If wiring the room, and you intend to do it behind walls, and put a great deal of effort into the wiring in the room, then running 14/4 (or 12/4) wiring behind walls in the case you ever decide to bi-wire/bi-amp is not a bad way to do things. Wire, relatively speaking, is inexpensive from decent sources such as Monoprice.

If you are just talking about how to wire your speakers up, then read the advice and links from the previous posters.