Subwoofer out on older receiver? (1 Viewer)

[BlakeH]

I have a powered subwoofer, but have an older receiver. It does not have the Subwoofer labeled out, but I'm wondering if there are any other outs that I might be able to use that would enable it too be powered?

 

[Troy_K]

Yea, run it parallel with your mains.

Troy

 

[Ryan Ab]

I have the same problem, so what I did was to run the outs of the tape output on the receiver to the ins of my sub, which coincidentally has 2 (l and r) inputs.

--Ryan

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

The big problem with that, Ryan, is that the tape outputs are a fixed-level signal. Thus the sub will remain at the same level when you turn the receiver’s volume up and down.

Regards,

Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[Jerome Grate]

I've gotta say it, I know your older receiver you probably paid a lot of money for and still sounds awesome. However the fact that you don't have a sub woofer pre-out to fully utilize the sub sounds to me you need a new receiver. Running them parallel to your speakers is the best way to go but does your receiver allows you to set the speakers to large so that all lfe will go to the sub. Just my .02