how do you hook up the subwoofer? needs Y splitter? what is that, and how do you do it?
1644428
simple speaker wire positive and negative. On my system I have a dedicated subwoofer positive and negative terminal.
1644429
The sub also has both left and right channel RCA plugs, so if your source has an RCA sub out, you can use a standard RCA cable, and just not plug in one side, as most sub sources are mono, with just one plug.
2087610
Just plug the red and black wires into the back of the amp or receiver. Unless you don't have an extra slot for the sub. If that's the case I'm not sure how to help.
1544570
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.
2281979
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.
148326
I had the same question when I bought mine. You won't need a splitter, just a sub-woofer cable. You can plug it into either input.
1980959
As far as I know you only need a sub out from the receiver to connect. Google the sub and your receiver for complete instructions. That's what I did to figure out how I needed to connect mine.
967778
The Subwoofer out has to be enabled look at the manual. Also there's a test function to see if the subwoofer is connected correctly.
1300676
You can buy the speaker line to RCA adapter to feed your speaker lines into the amp. I used an Audiocontrol LC6i in my setup but not necessary unless you want to add subwoofer and amps.
1956044
There is an aux input on the back of the subwoofer. I think you could plug on there.
701659
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.
237113
I too have a RC splitter for both L/R. They are cheap but probably not necessary. I had it left over from the sub that died.
1669542
Not sure what u mean but make sure there is sub cable input for the receiver and subwoofer. Some older subs use speaker wire instead.
107469
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
1679668
My Denon has a RCA style Mono Subwoofer output which I used a high quality RCA "Y" splitter and then used Two RCA to 1/4" mic into the Subwoofer. Sound is unreal...esp with a blu ray movie! :)
333781
"no" you only have to use the positive red input , in the back of your subwoofer . so if you have a double white & red rca cable ? just use positive output ( red ) out from receiver to red input on subb.!! red to red !! one cable is all you need !!
894400
You will need to purchase a cable seperately. It did not come with a subwoofer cable.
1555630
You are going to need a splitter cable. The sound quality was pretty bad, like talking into a tin can.