Instructions dont cover my situation.
passive jay
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I bought this and it came in the mail today.,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000092TT0/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
turns out I screwed up when I was checking to see if I could use this subwoofer. My reciever has spring contacts where you put in a bare wire for positive and negitive for the subwoofer while the subwoofer has wire contacts for positive and negitive for both left and right channels. I only have one channel! I asked my roommate and he said that since my reciever only has one set of wires for the sub woofer the signal must be in stereo so go ahead and hook up my two wires to either the left or right imputs on the subwoofer. Is that right? shouldnt I split the wires and hook up both the left and right sides?
So far i have taken my roommates advice and just hooked the signal up to the left side, it sounds great but I dont know if it is suppose to sound better or not.
here is the back of my reciever.
subwoofer and rear surrond.
center and front speakers.
back of my subwoofer.
So should I leave it as it is? Is there a better way to hook it up?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000092TT0/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
turns out I screwed up when I was checking to see if I could use this subwoofer. My reciever has spring contacts where you put in a bare wire for positive and negitive for the subwoofer while the subwoofer has wire contacts for positive and negitive for both left and right channels. I only have one channel! I asked my roommate and he said that since my reciever only has one set of wires for the sub woofer the signal must be in stereo so go ahead and hook up my two wires to either the left or right imputs on the subwoofer. Is that right? shouldnt I split the wires and hook up both the left and right sides?
So far i have taken my roommates advice and just hooked the signal up to the left side, it sounds great but I dont know if it is suppose to sound better or not.
here is the back of my reciever.
subwoofer and rear surrond.
center and front speakers.
back of my subwoofer.
So should I leave it as it is? Is there a better way to hook it up?
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ok, thanks!
care to elaborate? -
passive jay wrote: »ok, thanks!
care to elaborate?
sub signals are mono -
Wouldn't bridging that to both L/R give more output? I've found on subs that sum the inputs only put out half output when you don't use both L/R, or the standard LFE input.Main Surround -
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sub signals are mono
right but the wire post set up on the back of the subwoofer was intended to be used when you have a system without a subwoofer outpuy.. you are suppose to input the front left into the left side and front the right into the right side and then the output to the speakers. the subwoofer is designed for you to use an rca jack if you have a single subwoofer output. With that being the case am I still ok? -
Wouldn't bridging that to both L/R give more output? I've found on subs that sum the inputs only put out half output when you don't use both L/R, or the standard LFE input.
doubtful. When I had to use RCA inputs I tried the Y (1f to 2m) I didn't get anymore Bass output than with just 1 to the RCA input -
passive jay wrote: »right but the wire post set up on the back of the subwoofer was intended to be used when you have a system without a subwoofer outpuy.. you are suppose to input the front left into the left side and front the right into the right side and then the output to the speakers. the subwoofer is designed for you to use an rca jack if you have a single subwoofer output. With that being the case am I still ok?
unless you get something new you have hooked it up best you can with what you have.
Or you can take those surround speaker cables and hook up to L+R then run your surround speakers out of the sub and forget that sub output from the source -
unless you get something new you have hooked it up best you can with what you have.
Or you can take those surround speaker cables and hook up to L+R then run your surround speakers out of the sub and forget that sub output from the source
wouldnt i lose low end ignoring the sub output? -
passive jay wrote: »wouldnt i lose low end ignoring the sub output?
I think you would the left and right off that receiver probably remove the low end signal.
I do think you should try bridging the l/r on the sub it may help you with a db or two of gian. If it seems loud enough now you should be fine. -
passive jay wrote: »wouldnt i lose low end ignoring the sub output?
No you now send full range signal and let the sub sort it out. That is if you receiver/HTIB send full range signals from that speaker output. -
pretzelfisch wrote: »I think you would the left and right off that receiver probably remove the low end signal.
I do think you should try bridging the l/r on the sub it may help you with a db or two of gian. If it seems loud enough now you should be fine.
Not all speaker outputs can be bridged. The amp may see a short or worse give up it's smoke..... -
I fail to see why it matters. Adjust the gain if you have to. Unless that sub is a DVC and each input uses one coil (I don't think thats how it works), there is zero to gain.
Correct .....
