After 50 years selling (beginning with the original M&K subs in 1974), designing, building, and using subwoofers in both home and professional live music here's what I know about connecting subwoofers. There are no advantages to using high (speaker) level connections except convenience or accommodating equipment without low (preamp) level connections. The only correct method of connecting a subwoofer is via a high pass filter to the mains and low password filter to the sub(s). The HP/LP configuration minimizes LF overload to your mains reducing intermodulation distortion from the LF content and improves system dynamic range by as much as 6dB - the equivalent of quadrupling your main amp power. Likewise the LP filter removes higher frequency content from the sub(s) and with it the coloration associated with sub trying to do the mains job. Any HF content from a sub muddies the lower midrange and adversely impacts an accurate soundstage and imaging by creating a third ill-placed source for both channels lower midrange content. While other suboptimal connections may function, they are compromised in one or more aspects and never desirable. Placement of the HP/LP filter may be be in the increasingly common LFE preamp outputs, a separate component, or in the sub itself. In the latter case, longer interconnects are typically required to enable proper sub placement both to and from, so this is less desirable due to potential long cable issues. Crossover frequency and slope is largely situational, but in general keeping crossover frequency at 80 Hz or less is desirable as are steeper 12/18/24 dB per octave crossover slopes. Finally, placement is also largely situational although avoiding known room node points (e.g. halfway down a room's length) is a good starting point.