MY SUBWOOFER IS INFINITY AND MY RECIEVER IS SONY BUT SUBWOOFER HAS CONECTTION LIKE SPEAKER HIGHT INPUT AND LOW INPUT AND RECEIVER DO NOT HAVE THAT CONECTION
Your problem is quite simple. The low input is for feeding a lead straight from the output of your receiver IE sub out and the high input is for connecting the sub directly to your speaker output where the alternative is not possible. Hope this helps
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you need another reciever/amp to power that sub, because that denon reciever is designed for a powered sub,. if you have another old reciever/amp laying around, you can connect the sub out from the denon into an auxillary input of any old reciever/amp, (switched to that input) with speaker wires from old reciever/amp to the passive sub
Hey there houleo!
If your subwoofer has a stereo input and stereo outputs, then it's a good idea to send the signal from your receiver to the sub, then out to the other speakers you have hooked up. Some subwoofers will take the low frequencies out of the signal to the left and right speakers, so that the sub handles it alone. This often gives a nice crisp sound.
Reciever/amplifier l l
l l
V V
Subwoofer
l l
l L------> Right speaker V
Left speaker
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Hooking up a subwoofer is dependent upon what hookups are availble on the receiver and subwoofer. Does your receiver have a specific subwoofer output? If so, is it set of speaker-wire terminals, or is it an RCA jack? The Wharfedale can accomodate either one of these as an input. There are four speaker posts on the back of the subwoofer, and there is a single RCA jack input.
does this sub have an LFE output? if so, connect that to the LFE input on the reciever and make sure it is set up properly in the set up menu in speaker configuration. if the sub has speaker line input outputs, connect speakers to input of sub and out of sub to amp/recvr
Any auto parts store or WalMart will sell adequate speaker wires. For a sub of this power rating, you'll be fine with 14GA speaker wires (pronounced 14 gauge) but if you want to get beefier wires in case you upgrade the sub later, I'd recommend this 10GA hookup kit or something comparable.
Is the subwoofer a self-powered unit? If yes, it would have a minimal voltage showing on a meter. If the input is a line input, it would not have a problem taking in a line output (not speaker - never!) from your receiver. If the only output you have from your reciever is a speaker out, then purchase an L-Pad type speaker to line matching transformer. You can also take one of the input channels coming from the source and Y out a side to the sub pre receiver, but you then you would need to be able to adjust levels on the subwoofer independently from the receiver.
if this is ao powered sub, that plugs into the wall, there should be no problems, if it is powered solely by the reciever it may work fine but be sure you dont exceed amperage on the subwoofer.
The easiest solution to use your subwoofer is to buy an amp for it. Any old stereo receiver from a garage sale will probably do just fine.
Connect the mono RCA subwoofer output from your Sony with a 1xRCA-to-2xRCA splitter to both the left and right input of the cheap reciever's tape or aux input
connect both speaker outputs of the cheap reciever to the speaker input on your subwoofer. make sure both black (-) outputs on the reciever connect to the black input on the sub, and the red outputs (+) on the reciever are both connected to the red input on the subwoofer.
make sure the cheap receiver's volume is all the way down. turn your Sony up to about the loudest you'll listen to it. turn up the subwoofer amp until it's loud enough to sound good.
leave the subwoofer amp alone, the Sony volume will all you ever need to touch from now on.
You can even now turn off your subwoofer / adjust the volume easily now!
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