Newbie - Reciever Speaker bare wire L/R - Subwoofer RCA inputs

[mcoaudio]

I tried to search the forum but everyone has the opposite problem of mine. I just purchased a new subwoofer. Its active of course and has rca inputs.

My old reciever however has two outs of bare wire for connecting the home theatre in a box thing that was with it. Whats the best way to hook up my new sub? Radioshack has a cable but is this made for two lines? I guess I am looking at a simple mono cable from bare wire to rca does that exist?
Couldn't post the link (too new) ... radioshack online
search = 2103849 (product ID).

Thanks in advance!

 

[AVRat]

What's the new sub? Does it have speaker level connections? If so you could use those.

 

[mcoaudio]

Subwoofer is a small distributer - Tube audio design -

"Aural Ecstasy SW-100 Amplified 10-Inch Subwoofer Specs
100-Watt RMS Built-in heavy duty amplifier
Volume and Low Pass adjustment knobs
Phase switch for odd room position installations
Left & Right RCA audio inputs
Speaker Wire input Posts (only for normal non-inverting source amplifier connections)
High Level Output Posts"

It does have left/right speaker inputs as well but it doesn't have speaker outputs to run to my mains. Where would I daisy chain the mains?

 

[Adam]

Did it come with a user manual? If so, check if it shows suggested connection methods.

The "High Level Output Posts" sound like the speaker-level outputs that would run to your mains.

EDIT: Welcome to the forum, btw!

 

[fast1]

yea i would suggest the user manual. the ans should be in there.

 

[markw]

"Aural Ecstasy"???

(must.... bite.... tongue... )

Not all subs have outputs on them. Apparently this is one of them.

From what I can see, I'd say your best bet is to take your speaker level output from the receiver and feed it to one (or maybe jumpered to both) of the speaker level inputs on the subwoofer.

You're either gonna have to live with the bass management on your receiver of face the fact that the speakers will be running full range, which is not necessarily a bad thing if they fade off the low end gracefully.