Greetings. I've been reading, and reading, and reading some more but I can't find my exact solution and I like to get direct input. It helps much more than trying to find answers through other people's troubleshooting. So here goes.
I'm more of an audioholic than an audiophile, I guess, from the vague descriptions of the 2 terms that I could come up with. I'm an avid music fan and listener but I'm somewhat selective with my choices and I am very anti mainstream, eg. top 40, anything overplayed on all radio stations, etc. However I am into common genres such as rock, some metal, alternative, progressive, "indie", I also get into reggae, funk, disco, edm, ebm, etc etc. Sorry, I'm just giving a bit of background for any advice given to have some basis as to what I'm looking for sound wise. Basically I like anything bass heavy with good bpm but it has to have good rhythm and melody, flow, I like flow with keyboards and horns and all sorts of instruments that you don't normally hear in 2,3,4,5,etc piece bands/groups and it's best with some high frequency vocals, female, or male, if at all because I also like a lot of instrumental music as well because I'm kind of picky about vocals. I prefer positive messages in lyrics but there's a lot of music that's great but doesn't always have that.
Anyway, on to my query; I recently purchased an Onkyo TX-SR393, basic run of the mill inexpensive AVR to replace a TX-SR353. I know, not much of an upgrade but that's a big part of why I'm here. To learn.
The last decent system I had was over 25 years ago, just old school stereo equipment, pioneer, fisher, sherwood, technics, realistic, with cerwin Vega, Bose, or fisher speakers, usually 2 big towers with 12 or 15" woofers, 5 or 6" mids and horn tweeters with a 2 or 4 channel receiver/Amp, graphic equalizer, a dual tape deck, and a turntable most of the time, if it wasn't broken from the previous party where van Halen or motley crue was blasting until the cops shut us down. Good times.
Anyway, again, the reason I "upgraded" was because I wanted to add a second subwoofer, which I was under the impression I was doing because the 393 has 2 sub outs. I was also curious about the Atmos features which my 353 didn't have and I was hearing was all the rage. As it turns out, I'm not that interested in Atmos because I'm not much of a TV person.
I did buy some pretty nice Jamos speakers for it to replace my aging 5.1 Onkyo system, an older version of the system they sell as a package, usually with a receiver similar to the one I have. I do like the Jamos, I got S-809 towers for the fronts, S-803 monitors for rear surround, S-83 center, and J-10 sub. The system sounds pretty good to me. I know it's not super high quality stuff but it's better than what I'm used to and I don't think I'd spend much over $5000 on a system no matter how much I had. I'm just not into showing off and I don't think there's that much of a sound quality benefit, for me this is, too spending tens of thousands or more on a home audio system. That's just madness, beyond audiophile. Sickening actually but that's just my opinion and it's not just because I don't have it. I've been to people's homes who do have things like that and it just made me sick because I've also been to people's homes who couldn't feed their kids. And not for not trying or anything else like addictions and such, just people down on their luck. They're out there and to see people spend enough to feed quite a few of those families for quite some time on creature comforts just plucks at strings that I don't need plucked.
Sorry, again, back to my issues.
1) I've figured out, I think, that the second subwoofer out on my 393 is for the zone 2 channel, please correct me if that's wrong. And that I am able to connect a second subwoofer to the main channel via a simple Y cable. Is that possible? And if so is it safe and/or recommended or not ss far ss the audio system goes? And if so, there's a single RCA output, so I'd connect the Y cable to that and then run a single subwoofer cable to each subwoofer? However each one has a left and right input. I've read in the manual for the subwoofers to attach the cable to the left input for single cable applications. But I can't find info on whether it's OK to also Y cable from the single RCA of each one into both inputs on the subwoofers. Does anyone have any input on these questions?
Please forgive my ramblings and because of them, I will save any further questions for another time. Right now I'd just like to get my 2 subwoofers set up and working the most efficient way possible. They are both self powered and the same, they are Elac SUB1010s.
Thanks in advance for any advice on the subwoofer setup.
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