how do i hook up the subwoofer speakers ? i been tring to hook them up . can some please tell me how .
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I bought a 90 hz low pass filter and just ran the positive and negative through the filter and hooked it up to the positive and negative of the sub. It filters out all of the mids and highs and sounds great. Then I just hooked up my other speakers to the remaining channels on the amp. Hope this helps
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I get the need for the AV cable, but does a single male to male cable work? The subwoofer has left and right in-jacks, so do you need to buy a female to male splitter to connect to the male/male cable coming from your receiver's sub/out? I think the instructions say you can hook up the AV cable to the sub/in Left but why wouldn't you want to use a right and left sub/in hookup? I don't get it? Also, can someone tell me whether 16 g speaker wire is good enough or is 12 g better? I'm not too tech-savvy.
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Hello Louise, Buy a sub that has Speaker level inputs and outputs on the back ( many polk, sony, bic etc. do). Simply install right and left speaker wires to the amp as you normally would for regular speakers. Then conect those wires to the r/l speaker INPUT on the back of the sub. Then run seperate wires from the r/l OUTPUT on sub to your speakers. Works and sounds great! Hope this helps. S
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Dear Bill, Thanks for the info. I didn't connect the wire's directly but I guess it amounts to the same thing. The left and right front speakers are attached to STR-DH800 posts. I connected separate the speaker wires from the left and right front speakers posts to the left and right posts of the subwoofer. The subwoofer is a part of a Paradigm Cinema 70 set. It has its own power plug, an on/off switch and an RCA input The subwoofer hums when the RCA is plugged into it and I touch the unplugged end. Sincerely, John
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Can you be more specific on how to hook up a subwoofer{with "speaker level outputs"} to the Onkyo?
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Ok. The way I have mine set up is, I used the supplied OPTICAL AUDIO cable, connected from the TV to the sub woofer. This way, everything that would be coming out of the TV speakers, are coming out of the sound bar and the sub woofer in amazing sound quality.
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Thanks for the reply. I see your point about hooking the sub through to the main speaker outs and then to the L/R fronts. I guess that would be pushing it quite a bit. Thanks for the tips on the powered sub. At $80, I can't really go wrong. One last thing: If I wanted to forgo the rear speakers, could the sub be hooked up to the surround outs or am I letting my complete ignorance show here? Thanks again.
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I swapped out the speakers for more powerfull outdoor speakers. The sub woofer has to be connected, power goes thru it if i remember correctly. Hope this helps.
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I have since sold the unit. I used 2 powered Sub Woofers and connected them to the Sub Woofer Out on the back of the unit.
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Subwoofer should connect automatically. If not, I believe there's a connect button on sub.
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If you want a high quality sound you have to use USB which pretty much eliminates any option for a subwoofer connection from what I have found in my research. This is by far the worst part of owning these speakers. I am planning to open the speakers and wire an output from the powered outputs and custom wire an output for a sub due to this glaring deficiency. That or sell the speakers and buy some with a sub output.
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I would encourage you to hook up the sub to your receiver first to see if you need the amplifier. Unless you are calling your receiver an amp.The sub gets hooked into your right And left out the the speakers get hooked up to your sub speaker...marked left and right. If you want to call me you can414.588.1165
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I had to "modify" the cable from the sub woofer output jack to slip on fittings on the speakers. It isn't a poweed sub but really sounds good. Can't remember if the speaker came with a cable but don't think so. Your stereo should have a cable for a sub. Hope this helps?
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Just use the in and out jacks on the back of the speakers. Out from the speaker connected to source in to additional speaker.
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I had problems as well. Thinking back, I believe I got them to pair by holding down the button on the soundbar then holding down the button on the subwoofer. Finally after a few more tries they paired...
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Sorry, I never hooked a sub woofer to mine so I cant give you any advice on that.Cal
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I use only the speakers that came with the unit. It you want to add a subwoofer it calls for a "Powered subwoofer."