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this is about me being a loser and problem creator.

I finally got a 2nd subwoofer and I was excited to hook it up. Well, not too excited. I knew it would be a pain to hook it up. I was excited to hear it. I spent over 90 minutes connecting the speaker wires to my power amp. When I turned it on, the left channel was gone. It blew the fuse. I disconnected everything, replaced the fuse, hooked it up again. It worked for 10 seconds, blew the fuse again.

The way I hooked them up was I went from the sub speaker out from both subwoofers, rolled the left and right side wires together so I had 4 wires that I connected to the left and right plus and minus channels - speaker binders on the power amp. What are my options? My preamp has no sub out. Nor my amp.

Stupid question: should I just go from left to left on one sub and right to right on the other sub?

grislybutter
grislybutter OP
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@immatthewj

 

most everything I have is crappy (except for my TT and bookshelf speakers). Just one RCA out from preamp. I can use a splitter

no sub out from amp

I can’t buy another component, I have to make what I have work.

It’s a 45 year old amp with the tightest binding posts. (That’s why it took 90 minutes, to group and isolate naked wires in 1/20 inches of spaces.)

immatthewj
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I can’t buy another component, I have to make what I have work.

I gotcha; I totally understand.  

But I am going to ask anyway if I am understanding this correctly:

Just one RCA out from preamp.

You are saying just one pair of RCAs (L&R) out from the preamp (going to the amp), correct?

That's what I interpreted, anyway, when you said you had no sub out in your preamp.  I understand what you were saying about not buying another component, but I'll clarify what I was saying anyway:

the highpass filter goes between the pre and the amp.  In other words, that one pair of RCAs out to the amp now goes IN to the highpass filter.  (Highpaass filter then rolls off the bass, but I am not sure at what frequency).  There are two pairs of RCA outs in the highpass filter, and the pair with the bass connects to the subs (although in my case it was sub as in singular), and then the pair with the remaining treble goes to the amp.

 

immatthewj
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Grizzly, even though I know what you said and I respect that and I understand, since a pic is theoretically worth a lot of words, here is what my high pass looks like. I am only posting this as it may clarify my explanation. And A’gon may not let it be posted . . . I’ve never had a lot of luck posting links here.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116023312749

cliffkhz
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Pic # 2

dill
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To post a clickable link: On the toolbar just to the right of the emoji click the chain link, put the link in the URL window. If you want to name the link, put the name in the Display Text box then click ok.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/116023312749

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