considering this purchase 2 replace Cambridge Soundworks Ensemble II passive sub. I have old school receiver/amp w/ speaker wire inputs, compatible?
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This should wire into any receiver with speaker terminals. John from J & B Wholesale. We have 1 Sony SA-W2500 Grade "A" refurb. in stock.
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Hi T. Chalifour, Yes you can connect it using the speaker terminals. -Anthony
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You'll need to explain what your setup is like in more detail to get a reliable answer. What kind of receiver are you using? In general, no, you don't want to hook the bare ends of this to an existing speaker wire, and then plug this into the single RCA jack on a subwoofer. Those jacks are made for audio/instrument/signal cables, not speaker wires/cables.
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Yea its compleatly ohk to use the speaker wire you already have. But I would pay attention to the gage wire the onkyo system can handle. Because if you have to thick of speaker wire it won't fit. Plus this is a 7.1 surround sound system if you don't have the 7 speaker wires in you walls your not getting full listing experience.
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BTW - only the sub is from the old system. I have a set of Yamaha's for the r/c/l set-up. :)
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I'm sure it would work, but why? you have to worry about the wattage of the signal going in and then you have to convert your AC to DC to power this unit. Better off buying or building a sub that can take the high power speaker input rather than line inputs.
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i have a Polk PSW125 Sub, that i have had for a while, it sounds great with the Klipsch Quintet 5.0 speakers, i think that any good powered sub, will do fine.
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technically yes. As long as your receiver accepts passive wiring connections.
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I used to connect these speakers to my 5 year old Onkyo receiver TX-SR606 (90W per channel). It's more than adequate and loud enough. Last year, I upgraded my receiver to Onkyo 818 last that have pre out capability (you need Onkyo 7 series or above to connect your receiver to external amplifier) and use Emotiva XPA-5 amplifier. It's worth the upgrade. Sounds great especially with 24-bit uncompressed recording. It really makes you listen to your old collection once again.
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Nope, it's just a passive ( speaker level ) inputs sub. You could in theory hook up a cheap amp/receiver and then run speaker wires to it, but I doubt you would see any major quality upgrade. The thing sounds great in the yard... Better now than last year I think. I have it mounted under my deck, and the bass just blends perfect with the satellites.
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Yes if your receiver has separate subwoofer Input that supports powered subwoofer it works ,this subwoofer is pretty good and generates nice base and sound
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By saying the receiver accepts speaker wire you mean bare wire inputs. If so yes it will work.
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I've been happy with wiring the second inputs separately on the big L and R speakers and using that for the low end, but I'm also not a major bass-head. I'd suggest trying that first and then if you feel you need to add a sub, do it.
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standard speaker inputs either just wire or banana plug, if you mean power/sound that is from the receiver. Speakers sounds very nice for the price.
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In order to use a passive sub you would need a separate power amp, or one of Denon's 7.1 receivers and assign the rear surround amp to the sub output.
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I have recently purchased a new receiver and found that higher priced ones will have a phono input. There are preamps that can used - reviews of the lower priced ones left me skeptical about quality and frequency response, so I decided to spend the money on the receiver. (Denon 3313)
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Your speaker wires still go to the receiver...The pre-amp is only for your turntable...
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No problem connecting to a receiver. If your computer has a sound card, you could connect via phono outputs to your receiver. Also SPDIF if both have that plug.