@jtcf yes it was a typo, I went to the sub INPUT as shown on the pictures
speakers and cables
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?
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@immatthewj I understand your description. It makes sense. What I did was duplicating the output (that I used to have for ONE sub). I should just treat the subs and the speakers, as left and right channels. I tried. Few bucks of fuses are not the end of the World. I will try your suggestion tomorrow. |
Grizzly, let me add two more things: what I described in my last post was a diagram showing how to use only ONE sub. However, I truly do not think that it would change if you were using two subs, except that you would not use both left and right ins and outs from one sub--in other words left sub would use only left in and only left out/and then the same for the right sub to right speaker. Sorry because I know that this is way more than obvious, but I felt the need just in case. The second thing is my manual shows a second option with speaker wire, BUT this is for amps or receivers that feature an OUTPUT 1 (for speaker wires) and ALSO an OUTPUT 2 (for speaker wires). I am going to assume that you do not have that (I don't think I've ever owned anything that had that) but just in case: that diagram shows OUTPUT 1 (speaker wires) hooked to L & R speakers as per the usual way, and it shows OUTPUT 2 (speaker wires) hooking to the speaker wire inputs in the sub. And note that in this configuration, the speaker wire outputs from the sub are NOT being utilized. And again, this diagram is for only ONE sub, but if two were being utilized, obviously one sub would connect to L and the other to R. (Even though I know how obvious that is.) So I am pretty sure you don't have two sets of speaker wire OUTs in your amp, but in the way way way off chance that you do, there is also that option. |
@immatthewj you are very thorough and kind and helpful. I have exactly what is on the photo I included. It's this model. https://www.polkaudio.com/en-us/product/home-speakers/subwoofers/psw-10/112479-new.html it has RCA in, LFE inputs too. (And they sound great to my ear) |
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