Yamaha 995 subwoofer connection

Posted by Ergin Guney [IP: 165.117.55.57] on June 01, 1999 at 12:16:01
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In Reply to: Yamaha 995 subwoofer connection posted by Tom on June 01, 1999 at 01:16:07:

You must be talking about the center channel preamp output. It is not right to connect your subwoofer to it for at least two reasons:

1) If your subwoofer does not have a crossover connected to its line-level input, you would be feeding it a full-spectrum signal (i.e., including higher frequencies than its designed to handle). This could increase distortion at the subwoofer, if nothing else.

2) You would be getting only the bass component of the center channel out of your subwoofer. Any bass signals coming from the LFE channel in a 5.1-channel soundtrack and any bass your receiver is trying to route to your subwoofer from the four other channels would not reach the subwoofer. You would be missing most of the bass.

I don't think it is a good idea to connect things to places arbitrarily without knowing what they are for (which is what you seem to be doing). You could even cause permanent damage to your equipment that way.

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