speaker to subwoofer connection not working?????

soren316
soren316 Posts: 5
edited April 2008 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
Hi,
I bought 2 Audio Monitor 50 floorstanding speakers and am trying to connect it to the PSW10 subwoofers.
However, their is no sound from the speakers but the subwoofer is working fine.
Can anybody help me with some suggestions?
Thanks.

P.S: My Setup: The subwoofer is connected to RCA audio out jack to the T.V and the speakers wires goes into SPEAKER OUT of my subwoofer.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited April 2008
    Welcome to Club Polk
    What are you driving your subs with?
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  • soren316
    soren316 Posts: 5
    edited April 2008
    just the RCA (red and white wire) coming from the TV. Its a very basic setup. no receivers, amps etc.
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  • soren316
    soren316 Posts: 5
    edited April 2008
    is it bcoz the subwoofer doesnt hv in-built amp to drive the speakers?
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  • avguytx
    avguytx Posts: 1,628
    edited April 2008
    If that's a powered sub and has speaker level input, you'd be better off running the speaker wire outputs from the TV to the sub...IF the TV has them which most don't anymore. Otherwise, you aren't going to get any output to the Monitor 50's as the powered sub doesn't have powered outputs to drive them. You are going to need some sort of basic AV receiver and preferably one with a dedicated sub output.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,184
    edited April 2008
    Hi, you have to have an amplifier to power the speakers. The TV only provides a line level out, not a speaker level out and if I'm not mistaken the sub you have has a built in amplifier, which is why you are getting sound from it.
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