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    Connecting SUB to new receiver

    Hello all and please pardon the naivety here. . .

    I've finally joined the 1990's and bought a true surround receiver. Now I have a question:

    My Onkyo receiver has a single RCA out for the sub and my Klipsch sub has a L/R (two port) in.

    I bought a standard RCA cable.

    How do I connect these so that they work. Life was sooooo much easier when I had my old receiver and a pair of Khorns in the corner. . .

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Brian

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    One of the two inputs should be designated to be the primary sub input, I don't remember which but the manual or the back usually says. Alternatively you could buy a Y-adaptor to plug the end of the RCA into, and then plug both Y ends into the L/R inputs. This will increase the signal fed to the sub, and make it "seem" as though the sub can play louder (voltage stays constant through both parallel L and R branches when split).
    Either way is fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BDM1
    Hello all and please pardon the naivety here. . .

    I've finally joined the 1990's and bought a true surround receiver. Now I have a question:

    My Onkyo receiver has a single RCA out for the sub and my Klipsch sub has a L/R (two port) in.

    I bought a standard RCA cable.

    How do I connect these so that they work. Life was sooooo much easier when I had my old receiver and a pair of Khorns in the corner. . .

    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Brian
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