(new to HiFi) Have I wired these correctly?

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Hi folks,

I decided to take my first steps into a bit of hifi audio. I'm getting made redundant next month so I'm wasting money instead of saving Figured I'll have some downtime while I hunt for the next job and it would be nice to relax to some music.

I've picked up an old stereo valve amplifier (Dynavox VR-70E) and a pair of Mission M35 floor standing speakers. I have an Audioengine D1 DAC in a cupboard being unused, so the plan is to have it feed the amp via a laptop which is where the music will live. I've purchased a few meters of QED Micro speaker cable, it was getting good reviews and was cheap.

All was well until I looked at the back of the speakers and I got a bit confused:

The previous owner had these little wires in the photo above, one connected to both black terminals and one connected to both red terminals.

Did some quick Googling and I understand now that four terminals on a single speaker are for the purposes of bi-wiring which may (or may not) improve audio quality.

However the back of my amp looks like this:

I've gone for the 8 ohm option instead of 4 ohm simply because the back of the speakers say "8 ohms compatible". I assume this is correct?

Anyways my main question was, am I ok to wire each of speakers like this:

Thanks in advance!

 

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PS a couple follow up questions

- I'm assuming I can't bi wire as my amp doesn't have four output terminals per speaker?
- I'm assuming the bridge between the LF and HF (little black cable) is required as otherwise only a part of the speaker will work?

 

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Great, thanks for the replies - I'll get it all wired up and tested tonight. A single wire and single amp will do me, just wanted to make sure I had it correct.
And yes, black to black and red to red Although a bit fiddly with the QED Micro cable, as it doesn't seem to be marked in any way. I just traced my finger along the side I put in red and made sure it was plugged into red at the other end as well.

 

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Upon closer inspection, turns out there's a very (very) small ridge along one wire. Anyways all sorted now, I am pleased
Thanks again for the help.

 

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Thanks for all the advice. Yep the speakers are rear ported, I'll move them about (and further from the drawers) to experiment with the sound.

Shall see if I can find a small foam pad for the amp to sit on, although I won't be listening at high volumes so not sure how much the vibrations will come in to play.

And never considered that the speaker cable length should be the same for each speaker. I've got a ~2m run to the one in the photo above and ~6m-7m to the second speaker currently.

 

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And never considered that the speaker cable length should be the same for each speaker. I've got a ~2m run to the one in the photo above and ~6m-7m to the second speaker currently.

Although now that I think about it, electricity travels at tremendous speeds through wire - almost the speed of light. I suspect the cable lengths would need to be wildly different before this comes a factor. But I'm not here to spark debate

 

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I've ordered 8x "Fisual Round Adhesive Isolation Pads" to put under the speakers, should get rid of any unwanted vibrations hopefully. I'll have some time this weekend to test speaker placement. Exciting times

 

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Thanks Jason, certainly interesting. I'll try and see if I can hear any difference. If so I'll know to try extending the 2m cable to 6m