I don't feel that I really warranted that response, I greatly appreciate all of the information you guys have provided today and I will work towards a solution based on that advice, thank you.
Listen you won't find a solution, and even if you did, it will not sound good, which is what you said you wanted.
Those units were unmitigated junk of the worst variety right out of the box. HTIBS systems like those are never any good and to be avoided at all costs.
Those Sony units were particularly heinous because they were 3 ohms or less. An amplifier that can supply a low impedance like that is a formidable and expensive proposition, because of the high currents involved. Therefore making a bunch of very cheap amps to drive a load like that produces an invariable and predictable result. The result is prompt equipment failure.
The other issue is that no receivers drive passive subs. Those units are nowhere near good enough to justify the purchase of an amp, or any other piece of equipment to drive them.
These units, and there are other examples, are a cynical attempt the hook rather stupid and not well healed people into a system. They made darn sure nothing could be used with anything else. The receiver in the unlikely event it did not blow up, could not be used with anything else, as it could not generate enough output voltage to power it.
The speakers if connected to anything other than a costly exotic amp would blow it up and void the warranty. And by the way we have had post from people who have connected these speakers to other receivers and blown them up.
So this was a all done to make everything useless and force replacement of the whole shooting match, and soon.
So just give those speakers a decent burial at the recycling center. I suspect they were given to you, to relive they owner of the problem of disposal.
