Connection Issues

[e2hira]

Dear Sirs,

I am new here (and new audioholic) and I wanted to consult you guys on how to make use of the hardware my friend pawned to me before he passed away.

The audio gears on-hand are :

harman kardon avr 4550 7.1 Ch.
mordaunt-short sat speakers 4 units (trapezoid shape) 4-8 ohms each
Infinity passive subwoofer 2 units 3 ohms each / 100 watts each

I remember last time I saw it installed in my friend's home that all the speakers are working simultaneously.

After my checking of the speaker connections at the rear of the receiver there are 7 connections (Front L/R, Rear L/R, Back L/R and Center). Is it correct to plug the two passive subwoofer at the Back L/R?

I am not satisfied with the bass output from the sat speakers alone.

Please help me.

Thanks very much.

Ehira

 

[markw]

You can plug the passive subwoofers into the rear channels but they won't work worth a crap. There ain't no information for them to reproduce coming from them.

To use these passive subwoofers, you first need a pair of amplifiers. You plug these into the LFE/Subwoofer outputs of the receiver, and then you connect the passive subwoofers into those amps.