Do I need a sub woofer to use these with an SA520 amp and turn table, or just connect to the amp?
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I would use a powered sub and connect the rca's on your reciever to it. Most 10" powered subs sound great nowadays.
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It just depends how much bass you want. These will be very musical by themselves. But if you like rap music or pounding, room shaking bass; you will need a sub.
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You only need a sub if you want one, but they sound much better with one. I would highighly recommend a sub.
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Yes, you'll need to buy a cable. They're very cheap at Amazon. Just make sure it's long enough. If there are two inputs, one right and one left, you'll need a 'Y' adapter at the subwoofer I'm not sure 'cause mine is boxed up. A r/l input will work with one cable, just connect it to the 'sub out' jack from your receiver and plug it into the 'R' input on the sub.
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I need to clarify something on my last answer... There are no built in subs in these speakers. They have dual 6.5 inch ported woofers. The low end sound they produce are more than adequate for my needs. If you choose to add a separate sub to your system, I feel you won't need much as this model of speaker carries the low end quite well
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Yes, but you will need at least 15 watts of power to power up these speakers. So you need a 15 or higher Stereo power Amplifier to connect to the turntable and speakers. As far as cables: speakers wirer and I think maybe RCA cables? I don't know what kind of turntable you have, or are getting?
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You will need to use a digital coaxial audio cable (RCA type plug.) There are no banana jack connectors on the unit for the sub woofers.
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Each speaker has a subwoofer. You do not need any connector. They connect just like any other speaker except that they have power cord and volume knob for the sub.
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They are for a subwoofer, so you should only need one for each sub. I have two subs so I have two. My Yamaha reciever also has outputs for two sub's.
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No amp needed, the sub powers the speakers. However, I would recommend the Logitech z506 instead. I have both and I regret purchasing the acoustic audio speakers. Logitechs are better sounding, louder, more durable, and easier to set up.
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you will need xlr cables or you can also use rca cables. I use xlr cables because I go to powered subwoofers and speakers.
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There is a sub woofer RCA jack on the back side, if you need two RCA connects buy a splitter from some store like best buy or radio shack. The other way I have connected a sub is to attach in series with the other forward speakers with speaker wire.
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Susan, I originally bought a pair with the sub woofer. I then wanted to do a 5.1 home theather and added another pair without the sub woofer. I am using an Onkyo TX-NR414. Works great!
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Yes you do, however speakers on both sides of sub woofer so I turned mine to the side for easier access to volumn. Great speakers though, excellent sound for the price!
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No, these speakers need to be driver by a seperate amp to work. The sub does have it's own power and only requires an RCA input from your reciever (or possibly your PC) though.
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I would go to bicamerica.com and go to the Contact Us page, then email or call them. You should be able to use one of the other speaker outs on the receiver (center rear perhaps) to one of the speaker inputs on the subwoofer. I recommend using 14ga or larger (smaller gauge number, i.e. 10ga) wire to run the sub though as you will hear substantially greater volume and clarity with a heavier wire especially for a subwoofer. Good luck.
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I bought these as a pair for sub bottoms of main P.A. cabinets, they work well for this because there's a built in frequency crossover that passes thru to the main cabinets. I also have a mixing board and digital audio rack with signal enhancement. I would recommend these subs for this type of application. Hope I helped
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They are designed (poorly might I add) to be felt not heard, so yes a sub is required. I would have to say that you may need 8-10 of these to work and even then you will not be happy with their performance. Ideally you would mount it directly to the bottom of the sofa on a flat surface. A separate sub amp will need to be purchased to run the four Shakers, don't exceed the 50 watt limit of each shaker and may need to hook them in series and in parallel so as not to exceed the ohm limits of the amp. All this work and you will undoubtably be unhappy with the time and money spent. Buy a cheap 12" powered sub, gut it and mount that under your sofa, thats what I did; that will really shake your sofa. They are designed (poorly might I add) to be felt not heard, so yes a sub is required. I would have to say that you may need 8-10 of these to work and even then you will not be happy with their performance. Ideally you would mount it directly to the bottom of the sofa on a flat surface. A separate sub amp will need to be purchased to run the four Shakers, don't exceed the 50 watt limit of each shaker and may need to hook them in series and in parallel so as not to exceed the ohm limits of the amp. All this work and you will undoubtably be unhappy with the time and money spent. Buy a cheap... » Read More They are designed (poorly might I add) to be felt not heard, so yes a sub is required. I would have to say that you may need 8-10 of these to work and even then you will not be happy with their performance. Ideally you would mount it directly to the bottom of the sofa on a flat surface. A separate sub amp will need to be purchased to run the four Shakers, don't exceed the 50 watt limit of each shaker and may need to hook them in series and in parallel so as not to exceed the ohm limits of the amp. All this work and you will undoubtably be unhappy with the time and money spent. Buy a cheap 12" powered sub, gut it and mount that under your sofa, thats what I did; that will really shake your sofa. « Show Less
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You need speaker wire and a sub woofer cable. Monoprice m great speaker wire for the money. I assume you have an amp?