Subwoofer hunt

Ghosthouse, I would expect it to be perfectly fine to connect the subs to the speaker terminals instead of the amp terminals.

The only conceivable difference it might make that I can think of would be an **extremely** minor difference in the amount of "back-emf" from the speaker that might be received by sub. And if that were to have any audible significance at all (which I very much doubt), who knows, it might even be subjectively preferable.

Enjoy!

Best regards,
-- Al

Al - Your responsiveness and generous help are some of the best things about Audiogon.

Thank you.

Man that will save you some bucks!. I can't say i have ever done that, I run my from preouts myself.
congrats ,,,

Thanks for the input Bob.  The only reason for wanting to keep the cables short was simply "tidiness"...cable management, if you will.  Short will let me avoid having a lot of extra length laying around.

FWIW - am going to order a few feet of a Belden 5000 series 12 gauge from Blue Jeans Cable (along with some spade terminations).  

oleschool - I did try using pre-outs from the pre-amp.  I thought that would be the way to go.  BUT when I experimented trying the high level inputs...connecting subs to amp - I immediately thought things sounded better hooked up that way.  Go figure.  

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I hope the answers to the questions I've asked are helpful to you.