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chillywilly
chillywilly Posts: 167
edited October 2007 in Subwoofer Hookup & Bass Management
A guy a work was telling me His buddy just went out and bought new home theater subs. Then he told me he only has on pre out and ran a y splitter to run them both. I think sometings gotta give am I right. He also said he heard humming for the subs and the amp wasnt on.
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited October 2007
    chillywilly wrote: »
    A guy a work was telling me His buddy just went out and bought new home theater subs. Then he told me he only has on pre out and ran a y splitter to run them both. I think sometings gotta give am I right. He also said he heard humming for the subs and the amp wasnt on.


    I split mine 4 times and no problems.

    Hummm....bad cable or bad splitter.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited October 2007
    I split to a Velo 15" and a Velo 12"/15".
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited October 2007
    chillywilly wrote: »
    A guy a work was telling me His buddy just went out and bought new home theater subs. Then he told me he only has on pre out and ran a y splitter to run them both. I think sometings gotta give am I right. He also said he heard humming for the subs and the amp wasnt on.


    The Y works fine in that application....the hum isnt from the Y itself ....thats most likely a grounding issue fixed in a number of ways...search on grounding or hum and you will find a lot on the subject.
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  • mjhughes
    mjhughes Posts: 14
    edited October 2007
    I once had a hum from my sub that I fixed by connecting an rca cable from the sub's rce output to an unused audio rca input on my vcr.
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    edited October 2007
    Does he not have the ability to run a pre out from the preamp to sub1 and then connect the sub2 to the sub1 outs?
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