I need help I thought all I had to do is hook up the subwoofer cable and plug in the subwoofer in to a 110 outlet. I have no clue on how to hook up the four wires that are attached to the subwoofer
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No! Don't plug your Subwoofer into the outlet!! It doesn't have a preamp like other subwoofers. There are 2 pairs of wires: right channel [green (+) and white (-)] and left channel [red (+) and black (-)]. Just attached them to your receiver like you would any speaker. Good luck!
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Per prior answer - DO NOT plug any of the cables into the outlet. Just connect into your right and left main speaker wire +/-. You can also connect the pairs of sub wires together if using a single sub output or separate amp - but go to the polk site for instructions on which wires to join.
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I had a similar question. I even emailed Polk to ask them and never heard back. You will need an amplifier because the subwoofer is passive. It has its own crossover built in, but the receiver should only be sending high sounds to your other speakers and low sounds to your sub. I just attached both positive wires from the sub to the single positive wire coming from the amp (and the same for the negative wires). It seems to work great and I have had it in for at least a year.
1046778
You need a subwoofer cable. The receiver should have a Subwoofer out that connects directly to subwoofer with the subwoofer cable. Don't buy a Y adapter or cable.
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I actually just wired it into the B Channel connections and have had no problems...works great and that was the easiest way of wiring it. so, my speakers are in the A, the sub is in the B and I just flip the switch to A&B.; Hope that helps.
1980959
As far as I know you only need a sub out from the receiver to connect. Google the sub and your receiver for complete instructions. That's what I did to figure out how I needed to connect mine.
669968
Input shown in the back of the subwoofer says 120 V ~ 60 Hz, not extended to 220 V. I have 220 V at home and will use a 110 V transformer allways for my speakers.
443095
You have to use speaker wire from the receiver to the sub, then your front speaker to the sub which is a hardwired way to do it...
2017725
The sub has high level inputs and outputs. So you can connect your speaker wire to the sub and then come back out to the speakers.
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hi, i don't think is going to work, the output for the subwoofer should be without power amplification, and is usually a dedicated output, if is not there, your amplifier is not designed to connect a subwoofer. sorry.
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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.
2167521
I assume you put 110 v plugs actually ON the wires before plugging them in. Make sure you did all white to silver and black to gold on each install. Could be a polarity issue.
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Juan is correct. Your subwoofer is probably unpowered, unless it has its own power cord. This receiver port that this connecter uses does not power the subwoofer, so you will not hear the signal through the speaker.
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Hello. We would recommend using a 4 gauge amplifier power cable, and a minimum of 16 gauge speaker wire for the subwoofers. If you are installing the amplifier further than 10 feet from the subwoofer, you will need to use a minimum of 12 gauge speaker wire.
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Thing is that the subwoofer needs to be active , most (or all for what I know) receivers dont send energy thru coax just the signal of sound , like in my case , and did nothing , so i had yo put an amp in between the speaker and receiver
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Correction to my previous response. Still plug into L/RFE female plug on subwoofer. Forget the adaptor. It's been a while since I installed mine. You need a subwoofer cable. It is a different size than RCA jack. I am 100% sure this is what you need to do. You can actually order a subwoofer cable on Amazon if you can't find one locally. 7 or 8 dollars.
1956044
There is an aux input on the back of the subwoofer. I think you could plug on there.
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I'm not sure about that. There are two sets of RCA plugs on the back, input and output, but can't advise you to use them. I think you will have to call audioengine. They may have it set up so you MUST use their subwoofer.
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It's easy. Hook the positive and negative cables from the terminals on the subwoofer to the respective ones on the amplifier