Receiver to Subwoofer

[VCDHunter]

My A/V Receiver has one output for Subwoofer but my Sub has 2 inputs (right/left, red and whites) how the heck am I supposed to connect this together. The receiver is a Marantz SR440 and the subs a Gale.

[TeeeRex]

Having two inputs on a sub is pretty pointless considering it's Mono (the .1 of the 5.1...) and probably only a single driver within the unit anyway (!). remember that subbass is not usually directional - you feel it more than hear it (or should anyway!).

Just plug into the Red phono which (I think..) is Mono input only. Either that, or get a Phono splitter (female to two males) and split the Mono signal from your amp...

[yoda313]

Hello,

My sony 50 watt sub has one rca type plug and the left/right clip inputs. From my sony digital amp I connected a long plug type cable to the only matching input on the back of the sub. Pretty simple actually. Maybe when I get home I could post a picture and show what I mean. Good luck.

Kevin

[VCDHunter]

Having two inputs on a sub is pretty pointless considering it's Mono (the .1 of the 5.1...) and probably only a single driver within the unit anyway (!). remember that subbass is not usually directional - you feel it more than hear it (or should anyway!).

Just plug into the Red phono which (I think..) is Mono input only. Either that, or get a Phono splitter (female to two males) and split the Mono signal from your amp...

I have it plugged into the white phono socket at the moment and it seems to be working fine.

[Blazey]

Having two inputs on a sub is pretty pointless considering it's Mono (the .1 of the 5.1...) and probably only a single driver within the unit anyway (!). remember that subbass is not usually directional - you feel it more than hear it (or should anyway!).

Just plug into the Red phono which (I think..) is Mono input only. Either that, or get a Phono splitter (female to two males) and split the Mono signal from your amp...

Subs can run in stereo as well, just not for movies. I had a stereo pair in the trunk of my car when I was a kid.

[junkmalle]

Your sub was designed to work with recievers that don't have a discreet sub-out signal. It takes both the left and right stereo channels, filters out everything but the bass, combines the two channels, and plays the result.

The reason it has both left and right is because the bass can be on only one channel in a musical or movie source. If you only hooked up, say the right channel, and the bass was on the left, the sub wouldn't do anything.

Since your receiver has a single sub-out connection it has already filtered out the high frequencies and combined the bass from both (all) channels (or in the case of x.1 sources this has been done when the movie was produced). So you can hook it to either of the two inputs.

[MACCA350]

Best practise is to use a single RCA from the amp and then a good quality splitter at the sub to connect both L and R channels. I used to have just the one and the sub would go into Protect mode at high levels, but since doing this(as advised by a mate at a high-end hi-fi store) it has never gone into protect mode since. Also the bass sounds clearer/cleaner.

Many subs have two RCA imputs plus speaker level imputs to accomadate many listening setups not just HT (eg mine can have dvd player L/R RCA plugged straight into it and speaker terminals from the sub to Left and Right Speakers direct, this uses the subs amp and crossover to run speakers and sub(only usefull if you dont have a reciever etc.)

anywayz thats my two cents worth