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By RykIII on Oct 30, 2007

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I have a subwoofer whose only output is speaker wire and a brand new Sony STR-DG710 receiver whose subwoofer output is a mono RCA jack.

Is it possible to hook up my Sub to this Receiver? Is there any sort of adapter I can purchase to go from speaker wire to mono RCA or am I going to need to purchase a new sub with a mono RCA output?

Link to Sonys page for STR-DG710
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665061595

Link to Panasonics page for my Home Theater System. I'm using the speakers and sub from this unit.
http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/support/Video/DVD-Recorders-Players/DVD-Home-Theater-Systems/model.SC-HT743.S

I appreciate any help you guys here can provide. Oh, and if it turns out I do need a new sub any recommendations for a decent quality but inexpensive one?

Comments:

Oct 31, 2007

- I'm sorry. I meant my subwoofers only INPUT is speaker wire.

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posted on Nov 11, 2007

UserNotFound

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Rating: 88%, 14 votes

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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Solution #2

posted on Mar 17, 2008

abhirag

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Rating: 71%, 3 votes

my av receiver didnot have preout for surround spkr.I want to add extra amplifer to my surround spkr.Can any one suggest what to do or can i directly connect spkr wire to amplifer.

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