panasonic sa-xr15 (1 Viewer)

[shaunWyatt]

Hi i am new to the forum and this is might sound an obvious but i have just bought a panasonic sa-xr15 amp, the connection on the back for the subwoofer has a rca plug.My subwoofer is passive with two speaker cables coming from it,can i connect the two wires to a rca plug or do i need to buy a active subwoofer.Hope that makes some kind of sense
Thanks shaun
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[Brian Fellmeth]

You have 2 options, and rigging an RCA cord to the subwoofer inputs is NOT one of them.

1) Buy active subwoofer
2) Get something to serve as a subwoofer amp. You can use an old stereo receiver.

 

[shaunWyatt]

Thanks brian for the reply, if i do that what connections do the sub wires go to

 

[FeisalK]

if you get an amp the sub wires will go to the amplifier speaker terminals, and the RCA from the xr15 goes to one of the inputs on the stereo amp

XR15 RCA --> Left AUX input
Amp left speaker --> subwoofer

if the sub has L and R wires, you can get a Y splitter and split the RCA output from the XR15

for a budget, this Dayton 10" sub is quite well known

 

[shaunWyatt]

Thanks for your help guys i think i will buy a active sub because of lack of space for another amp