Good news, Jim! Thanks for the update.
Another reason you may have been hesitant to accept the idea of a splitter might be the many negative comments about them you may have seen here in the past. Although on occasion positive ones do appear.
My belief, though, from a technical standpoint and also based on having used them at times over the years, is that the adverse effects people often seem to report as a result of using them are in most cases due to the inability of the component providing the signal to simultaneously drive two sets of cables and the two specific load impedances with good results. Rather than being caused by the splitter or y-adapter itself. And/or failure to realize, in situations where a preamp output is split to drive both a power amp and a sub, that the capacitance of the cable to the sub as well as the input impedance of the sub will affect the signal seen by the power amp. To a degree that may or may not be significant depending on the specific numbers that are involved.
As I indicated earlier, though, those factors don't appear to be applicable in your specific situation.
Best regards,
-- Al