Hooking an XLR self-powered sub to a home-theater type receiver?

[sdifox]

Your receiver has a sub pre-out. All you need is a single ended to xlr adapter.

http://www.amazon.com/Hosa-GXM-133-F...e+ended+to+xlr


Never mind, just read the manual on your receiver, it does not have pre out. Image search showed me a picture with pre-out...but that is the Thai model...
Check the back of your receiver to see if it has the sub pre-out like this one.

Edit 2. Checked the Thai website, it's the 552 that has pre-out.

Http://www.google.ca/search?q=onkyo...AQ&biw=1024&bih=768#biv=i|1;d|_GVS_E9hNNnUIM:

 

[TridenT]

Your receiver has a sub pre-out. All you need is a single ended to xlr adapter.

http://www.amazon.com/Hosa-GXM-133-F...e+ended+to+xlr


Never mind, just read the manual on your receiver, it does not have pre out. Image search showed me a picture with pre-out...but that is the Thai model...
Check the back of your receiver to see if it has the sub pre-out like this one.

Edit 2. Checked the Thai website, it's the 552 that has pre-out.

Http://www.google.ca/search?q=onkyo...AQ&biw=1024&bih=768#biv=i|1;d|_GVS_E9hNNnUIM:

Yep. I don't have a pre-out. Like I said, speaker wire is the only out that I saw.

 

[sdifox]

Yep. I don't have a pre-out. Like I said, speaker wire is the only out that I saw.

You can use a LOC, Line Output Converter.

http://www.amazon.com/PAC-SNI-35-Adj...tput+converter


http://www.amazon.com/PAC-SOEM-T-2-Channel-Line-Out-Converter/dp/B003550RLE/ref=pd_sbs_auto_2

 

[TridenT]

Anyone see any problems with doing 1/4" to Y-split RCA to XLR from one port off the y splitter?

 

[sdifox]

Anyone see any problems with doing 1/4" to Y-split RCA to XLR from one port off the y splitter?

Err, what are you trying to do? Thought your source is powered? You need to bring it down to line level and just feed it straight to the sub.

 

[TridenT]

Err, what are you trying to do? Thought your source is powered? You need to bring it down to line level and just feed it straight to the sub.

We use a mixer before we feed into the receiver. I'm just going to split the 1/4" outputs at the mixer and feed one to the receiver and the other to the subwoofer with a RCA to XLR adapter. Seems to make more sense.

It'll go from L-1/4", R-1/4" to L-Y-Splitter-RCA, R-Y-Splitter-RCA. L, R, RCA to RCA (for the receiver) and L,R, RCA to XLR to subwoofer.

I think that will work.

 

[sdifox]

We use a mixer before we feed into the receiver. I'm just going to split the 1/4" outputs at the mixer and feed one to the receiver and the other to the subwoofer with a RCA to XLR adapter. Seems to make more sense.

It'll go from L-1/4", R-1/4" to L-Y-Splitter-RCA, R-Y-Splitter-RCA. L, R, RCA to RCA (for the receiver) and L,R, RCA to XLR to subwoofer.

I think that will work.

Err, how are you going to do that with say two different HDMI sources?

 

[TridenT]

Err, how are you going to do that with say two different HDMI sources?

There is no video... This is purely an audio setup. We plug into the front of the receiver with RCA.

 

[sdifox]

There is no video... This is purely an audio setup. We plug into the front of the receiver with RCA.

OK... so everything is fed though the one analogue input? If so, grab a mixer with two output, one to receiver, one to sub. Your sub can handle full range input.