Guys a couple tips if your're going to add the extra center speaker and/or plugs

First Garys dead on for taking the satts apart, only suggestion further is it helps if you remove the 2 screws on the cable clip on the back. the wires are short and you can't get it seperated without removing the whole thing or unpluging the wires from the speaker. these clips have a locking device on them and almost not worth the effort to get them unplugged. Its easier to take the 2 screws from the back.

Second tip. The center speaker removes the same way "But" the three that I've done are glued about 3 inches on both sides at the center of the front panel. The first one I scratched up not knowing what was holding it.

How to! after the rubber and the screws (front and back) are out use a wide flat blade screwdriver with a thin point on the blade, pull up on each end with your fingernails careful not hard enought to crack the plastic, this starts the rubber adhesive to let go, Now holding one end up with yours nails, insert the screwdriver in the small crack back about a 1 1/2" right before the bend. now push down fairly hard (don;t let the screwdriver slip) and twist back and forward while pulling up with your nails it should pop this side loose, now lift this side up and down while pulling up and the other side will break loose. after puting back together press down hard on this area to reseat.

Third tip: Ask for 90 deg. 1/4 mono telephone jacks at radioshack or whereever.
These are a little tricky if you've never done one. Its a piece of cake, but you have to have a couple things going for you. firstoff you have to be very careful not to overheat this plug with a soldering iron. The insulators will shrink and the whole plug will become loose and not make good contact. the neg wire solders to the metal of this plug, you'll need a good higher wattage iron, 30 watt won't do it, probably need about a 150 watt or more. I use 550 watts for this,(but I'm familiar with the gun) what happens here is if you slowly bring the metal up to the temp thats needed to except solder you've heated the whole plug including the insulators, so using a hot wattage iron getting it fast you can get this soldered,befor it heat the whole thing. The best way is using a small vise to hold plugs while you work on them (I use a large spring clothspin type clamp. also a small clamp can be put on the center lug, both works as a heat sink and saves the plug from damage.

This is a lot of soldering to do both ends and make up 5 speaker cables. I have 2 z5500's and did both.

Materials from memory

2-project boxes (2"x4") fits perfect in the recessed slot on the back of the sub. Its a tight fit and you'll have to measure to make sure you have enough room to get 5 plugs in there, but looks good on the back of the sub.

5- 90 degree 1/4" mono phone jacks (male)

5- 1/4" mono phone jacks (male)

10- 1/4" mono phone jacks (female)

? ft lamp cord You need to figure where they're going and how much you need. I used about 70'ft of #16 rubberized stranded copper.( this keeps the stands fairly close in.) If you want to spread them you'll probably need more wire.
The rubbery stuff lays flat on the floor and can actually be coiled up without going every which way.

About 6 feet of wire to go from project box to plugs on sub

5- different colors of paint, markers, whatever if you want to color code
I used center- blue rfront- green rrear-white Lfront-yellow Lrear- red

About 8" velcro to hold on the project box

Last tip: before drilling any holes in the speakers/and/project box make sure there is clearance inside
This should be looked at very closely!!!!

Probably got more things on here than you need, but others might find something here of benefit....

Have fun and watch that Iron on those piano playing fingers...

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