setting up a stereo receiver

[nick101181]

Hello,


at work we have an old stereo receiver hooked up to a audiolabs subwoofer and speaker set that I got. It sounds good but right now we are only able to hear the audiolabs speakers and not any that are hooked up to the receiver.I'm attaching a picture so you can see what I'm talking about. Currently we got the output from the headphones jack from the receiver into the input on the subwoofer/speakers set. It was already hooked up with a 3.5mm jack to 2 composite cable adapter and that was hooked into the tape out part on the back of the receiver. So when we listen to our ipods we plug the 3.5mm/composite adapter to our ipods and that gets sent to the receiver which then leaves the headphone jack on the receiver and then goes into our subwoofer/speakers. I really want to be able to have 2 speakers going from the receiver in addition to the speaker/subwoofer set we got now. Can anyone tell me how to hook it up the way I want after looking at the pic? thanks

[SquirrelDip]

I'm guessing that the way your receiver works is that it cuts the speakers when you plug into the phones...

I'm also guessing you have the ipod connected to tape in and not tape out...

Try plugging the subwoofer into the tape out (use the 3.5mm/RCA plug and try the radio) - this may or may not work as the tape out is line level and fixed volume. It depends on if your subwoofer can accept line level out (probably). Volume adjust will have to be done at the subwoofer.

If it works then pick up a second 3.5mm/RCA plug. ipod to tape in and subwoofer to tape out.