question on passive subwoofer

[deviley]

I am trying to wire up my home system and my receiver only has a spot for a powered sub. to get wired in with a single RCA jack. the sub I have is a duel voice coil sub. It has two sets of connectors, (no "IN" or "OUT" marked on them just positive and negative) I can not figure out how to wire it up? can anyone guide me in the right direction?

 

[xboxweasel]

Do they look like speaker wire terminals (ie: one red and one black)? Then those are speaker level inputs. You should have four terminals for speaker level in, and four terminals for speaker level out.

You would connect your receivers front left and right speaker outputs to the sub speaker level inputs. Then connect your front and left speakers to the sub speaker level outputs.

OR:

(I have not seen one of these) You would connect the sub directly to a pair of speaker output terminals on the recevier. Which channel that would be I am not sure! I think some receivers have a seperate set of powerd terminals for a passive subwoofer.

What is the make and model of the sub and the receiver? Given that information you will get better answers.

 

[brendy]

You need a separate amp.

 

[agarwalro]

Yup. Sounds like you have a passive subwoofer. How to confirm this? It does not have a power cable going to it...

The sub out from your receiver will go to an external amp and the amp will provide the power for the subwoofer.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I am trying to wire up my home system and my receiver only has a spot for a powered sub. to get wired in with a single RCA jack. the sub I have is a duel voice coil sub. It has two sets of connectors, (no "IN" or "OUT" marked on them just positive and negative) I can not figure out how to wire it up? can anyone guide me in the right direction?

You can get a good amp for around $180, Behringer A500, bridgeable.

 

[mulester7]

You can get a good amp for around $180, Behringer A500, bridgeable.

.....Mtry, good answer in this application for sure....you been takin' smart pills?....I think WmAx said the Behringer A500 strapped has a pool 440 feet deep at a 4 ohm draw....did I say feet?....ahem, 440 4-ohm bullets....makes an unpowered sub show respect quick....but....in his application, he probably needs to have a 2 ohm stable amp and parallel his dual voice-coils for the bottom....as long as it stays clean....the name of the game is the best voice possible for the application, everything from top to bottom CLEAN, and no holes....I'm probably going to get a Placette linestage pre-amp.....

.....edit....that was a MONO 2 ohm stable amp with the dual voice-coils paralleled....the 4 ohm voice-coils paralleled gives the ohmage load in the bushes seen as 2....a strapped amp then would see 1....correct, space heater time....

 

[Sheep]

.....Mtry, good answer in this application for sure....you been takin' smart pills?....I think WmAx said the Behringer A500 strapped has a pool 440 feet deep at a 4 ohm draw....did I say feet?....ahem, 440 4-ohm bullets....makes an unpowered sub show respect quick....but....in his application, he probably needs to have a 2 ohm stable amp and parallel his dual voice-coils for the bottom....as long as it stays clean....the name of the game is the best voice possible for the application, everything from top to bottom CLEAN, and no holes....I'm probably going to get a Placette linestage pre-amp.....

.....edit....that was a MONO 2 ohm stable amp with the dual voice-coils paralleled....the 4 ohm voice-coils paralleled gives the ohmage load in the bushes seen as 2....a strapped amp then would see 1....correct, space heater time....

How can you say that without knowing what drivers he has? 2 ohms would kill some drivers.

SheepStar