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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

I think your ear can train your brain, and your brain can work with your ears to look for more details. But it truly only matters with discerning systems, "anyone" can hear the difference between a bluetooth pill and and car radio. We are in this hobby because we look for the perfect sound. So you can probably hear a lot more than you think :)

I remember your example from Colombo.

I also like Andrew Jones’s explanation that everything is determined to be flawed from the source to the speaker and what engineers do is fixing errors along the way. (Paraphrasing)

 

grislybutter OP
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@sgordoxyz thank you, it is balanced

Update:

I implemented the @carlsbad2 method and it works nicely

immatthewj
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Update:

I implemented the @carlsbad2 method and it works nicely

Which is picture #2 of the pictures you posted, correct?

Are you still going to try out a pair of "Y" splitters from Amazon just to see if you like RCAs to subs better? For what those splitters (probably?) cost, I would.

And, more importantly, how is the sound of (now having) TWO subs (count ’em!) sounding? Kickass?

immatthewj
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 We are in this hobby because we look for the perfect sound.

. . . nope; I came to realize long ago that this achievement would be way beyond my capabilities.  But there are nights and/or afternoons that I am quite pleased with what my system does do, and I can live with that.  

immatthewj
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. . . sorry about this, but one last thing: I just did some cursory searches, and apparently it was "subliminal messaging" related to coke (the cola kind) and popcorn that may or may not have been successfully done back in ’57 to get people at the movie to subconsciously crave coke and popcorn. Whether or not that experiment was truly performed as claimed, I still believe that a lot of my hearing works in that manner--I do not consciously realize all that I, personally, am hearing, although I believe that it may register in my subconscious and have a positive or negative long term affect on my listening experiences.

Sorry about that, but I did feel the need to type a correction to that post. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. . . .

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