HI, does all the speakers need to be connected to the subwoofer or directly to receiver?
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Yes, actually to the subwoofer. The sub is serving as the middle man persay. One set of wires connect from the sub to the reciever. Then a set of wires connect from the sub to the speakers.
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I have 2 wires to each of the main speaker outputs on my receiver. One to the Subwoofer and one to the main speakers. it works flawlessly and sounds awesome.
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This gets connected using an amplifier ( 100 watts ) and standard speaker wire. The amplifier is fed as you would a subwoofer.
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If you get a subwoofer that is powered by it's own amp, such as the Dayton SUB-1200, then all you'll need is the wiring. You'd wire the amp to the sub, then the sub to the speakers.
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I had a similar question. I even emailed Polk to ask them and never heard back. You will need an amplifier because the subwoofer is passive. It has its own crossover built in, but the receiver should only be sending high sounds to your other speakers and low sounds to your sub. I just attached both positive wires from the sub to the single positive wire coming from the amp (and the same for the negative wires). It seems to work great and I have had it in for at least a year.
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You need a subwoofer cable. The receiver should have a Subwoofer out that connects directly to subwoofer with the subwoofer cable. Don't buy a Y adapter or cable.
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Wirelessly or wired L, R, center and sub? If wirelessly you will have to find a kit that supports all the speakers. Otherwise you just wire the remaining speakers to your amplifier or AV receiver.
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Yes. The receiver has two subwoofer outputs. They cannot be separately controlled from the receiver.
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there are different ways to wire it, if your receiver has a sub-out plug on it just get a powered subwoofer cable and plug into either r or l on the woofer. Does not matter which one. hope this helps.
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yes, you will need a receiver or an amp to power the two speakers. the sub has an amp built in.
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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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Left and right speakers connect to the subwoofer with wires. I did use 2 extensions to increase the distance with no issues.
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You need a subwoofer amplifier. Connect the cable out of the receiver to the sub amp, then connect the speaker wires from speaker to the sub amp.
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Thing is that the subwoofer needs to be active , most (or all for what I know) receivers dont send energy thru coax just the signal of sound , like in my case , and did nothing , so i had yo put an amp in between the speaker and receiver
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No, you will have to get a subwoofer cable to plug from the sub to the receiver
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This receiver has a subwoofer pre-out. You plug a subwoofer cable to the bottom plug on the pre-out on the receiver.
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No, this is just the speakers, you need to connect them to a receiver (amplifier). The receiver probably will have a remote control, not the speakers.