Connecting old PC subwoofer to receiver

[scottbutler]

Greetings! I was given an old Advent AV522 powered subwoofer. It plugs into a wall outlet and has a power switch and volume knob. It was designed to be connected to a PC with external speakers. I would like to hook it up to my Sony home theatre receiver. My receiver has a subwoofer output (single RCA jack). The subwoofer has L/R RCA inputs, a mini-stereo jack input, and a mini-stereo jack output. I tried connecting an RCA audio cable to the subwoofer inputs (L/R) and either the L or the R to the subwoofer output on the receiver - but neither seemed to work. I also tried an RCA audio (L/R) cable from the receiver (tried both the L and the R) to the mini-stereo input jack on the receiver - but this did not work either. Do I need a different kind of cable? Is there another way to connect it besides the subwoofer out port on the receiver? Is this type of subwoofer not compatible - or just broken? The power light does come on and gives a hum. Thanks!!!
-Scott

 

[noob001]

Greetings! I was given an old Advent AV522 powered subwoofer. It plugs into a wall outlet and has a power switch and volume knob. It was designed to be connected to a PC with external speakers. I would like to hook it up to my Sony home theatre receiver. My receiver has a subwoofer output (single RCA jack). The subwoofer has L/R RCA inputs, a mini-stereo jack input, and a mini-stereo jack output. I tried connecting an RCA audio cable to the subwoofer inputs (L/R) and either the L or the R to the subwoofer output on the receiver - but neither seemed to work. I also tried an RCA audio (L/R) cable from the receiver (tried both the L and the R) to the mini-stereo input jack on the receiver - but this did not work either. Do I need a different kind of cable? Is there another way to connect it besides the subwoofer out port on the receiver? Is this type of subwoofer not compatible - or just broken? The power light does come on and gives a hum. Thanks!!!
-Scott

if your receiver have an L/R Preamp output, you can connect it from the preamp to the sub L/R input, it should work. If you dont have a preamp output you can use the receiver normal L/R output(usually label rec out) but when you turn the volume up/down on the receiver it wont change the sub volume, you have to turn the sub volume too.

 

[Adam]

Scott,

It sounds like connecting the RCA cable from the Sony receiver's subwoofer output to the RCA input(s) on the subwoofer should work. You could use a Y-adapter to connect the single output on the receiver to both inputs on the sub. Make sure that your Sony receiver is set up so that it sends a signal to the subwoofer, as the default set-up might have all of your speakers set to "large" (which would only send LFE bass to the sub during movie playback). Your receiver probably has some sort of speaker set-up in a settings menu.

Adam