Help with hooking my sub up to my HK3380 (1 Viewer)

[NickSI]

hey all.
i mentioned my trouble with this in another thread but unfortunately my comment was a bit off topic and was never answered. but now i really am curious. here's what i did and what happened. your part is telling me how to fix it. I was planning a little party and wanted some music. so i decied to steal my father's JBL subwoofer. the sub is the sub out of the SCS series. im not sure exactly the part number but its a decent model for my use. anyway, i hooked the sub into the sub out on the reciever and to the LFE on the sub. turned on some music and it was a really wierd sound. the sub was very noticeable. placement was obvious from the sound. my un-expert diagnosis was that the freq cutoff was too high. then i realiezed that there probably wasn't a cutoff at all. as the sub didn't have a built in one and the reciever doesn't have one. my question to you is how can i match this sub with my stereo? ohh by the way the speakers in the stereo are a pair of boston VR-1's. (not that it should make a difference though)

PS the sub works fine on my HT which is a Yammy HTR 5740

 

[Jerome Grate]

Does the power subs have stereo line inputs and speaker terminals. You may be able to use the receiver as a pre-amp and then hook the speakers to the terminals of the sub. I believe this would balance out somewhat. Does the sub have any type of frequency response dial to help determine how low or how high you can go with the bass.

 

[NickSI]

well the sub does have a bunch of speaker terminals on the back. and no there is no dial to determine the freq responce.

 

[Jerome Grate]

Try to hook the speakers up to the sub and then hook the sub by using the line outputs from the receiver and see what you get.

 

[NickSI]

ok ill give it a try this weekend and let you know