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Subwoofer I have a Pioneer 5.1 receiver with an RCA female plugin for the output to the subwoofer. The subwoofer input does not have a female RCA connector. The subwoofer input has a L & R/red and black speaker wire input. How do I connect the subwoofer?

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  • Jackey Nov 08, 2007

    My problem is the same.

    I have a Kenwood subwoofer SW-15HT-W with the same L & R speaker wire input.

    I thought I can just buy a connecting cable to resolve the problem but I was wrong.



    How do you connect the monoblock amplifier as suggested in your solution?.

  • slavoie Jan 08, 2008

    I have a 7.1 Home theater system receiver and my SW (sub woofer) needs RCA wires but my Nutone MS-418 needs speaker wires so can I used RCA cable and cut them on one side to be plug into my MS-418 sub woofer?

  • BIKERMANKJ Jul 30, 2008

    HAVE A E-120 KLH SUBWOOFER, THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE S0 LIMITED, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO HOOK IT UP AND GET IT WORKING TO MY KENWOOD SURROUND SOUND RECEIVER OR MY NEW SHERWOOD RECEIVER WITH SUBWOOFER OUTPUT. DOES ANY ONE HAVE COMPLETE MANUEL GUIDE IINSTRUCTIONS, I COULD DOWNLOAD?

  • ecatral Aug 23, 2008

    I have a Technics SB C22 speaker syst. & 2 speakers. I don't know where to connect the sub woofer. The syst is suppose to be a suround sound for my TV. I bought them in garage sale.

    Can you help, Pls.

  • Anonymous Oct 28, 2008

    the cables don't match up with input jach on my tv or satalite reciever

  • rhenier Oct 30, 2008

    how can connect my subwoofer sa-wm250 to my receiver

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I have a bad female R.C.A. input will not keep a connection. It does work if you jiggle it.

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Most AV receivers do not have a built in amplifier block to drive a subwoofer, and merely provide the subwoofer output channel at line voltage. Thus, a powered subwoofer is required. Does the subwoofer require mains power? From your description, I'm guessing it doesn't. If not, it does not have a buit in amplifier, you will need to purchase a monoblock amplifier, which is just a mono amplifier with a volume control, no tone controls or anything else. Make sure that the amplifier power rating is as close as possible to the subwoofer power rating, as it is quite possible to blow a speaker by using an amplifier whose power output is too low, by overdriving the amplifier , and putting DC through the voice coil when the amplifier clips. If it does require mains power, it will have an amplifier built in, but does not have line level inputs.

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