subwoofer: This HOme theater's subwoofer is active or passive?
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The subwoofer itself is passive, but the channel for the subwoofer is amplified from the main unit. Therefore, you will get plenty of sound out of it with this system, but the sub will not work as a stand-alone self-amplified subwoofer.
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The description says "Optimized for use with subwoofers" I'm guessing it's not high fidelity. My sub sounds fine hooked up to it, but if I was going to hook up some regular powered speakers, I'd buy something that's advertised for that purpose.
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The subwoofer should always be on regardless of the surround mode, and the source material. However, it is possible turn the sub off and I think that setting applies to different sources. Check CH LEVEL on remote. If it's not there, you might have to hunt through the menus. Good luck with that.
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simple speaker wire positive and negative. On my system I have a dedicated subwoofer positive and negative terminal.
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My subwoofer is behind a couch and does not have line of sight. It does work.
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Dear Docpain, Pls forgive me reply in delay. Yes,it is active pickup.how to estimate it,just depends on your bass. Warmest regards, Emma
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The speakers are not self powered. I am playing though my receiver and with a separate sub-woofer.
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There are two subwoofer outputs, but it does not support the Audyssey Sub EQ for eq'ing multiple subwoofers in your room. The X4000 does.
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I'm probably not the best person to answer the question. This is my first subwoofer. I'm happy with it, and this was after trying out three other ones beforehand. It's very compact and seems to do the job. Sounds like our rooms are about the same size.
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Yes the sound bar works without subwoofer turned on. Also, when the sound bar is turned off, the sub woofer goes to 'standby' automatically.
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An active subwoofer would be best. With a passive subwoofer you will need a separate amp to power it.DJ FLASH
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#1) If is a passive subwoofer you can use front left and front right speakers to the subwoofer inputs left and right and from the subwoofer output to the front left and front right speakers all this can be done with banana plugs, #2 if your subwoofer is self powered you dont need the banana plugs all you need is a sigle rca/component fitting cable from receiver sub output to the line in left or right in the suwoofer.
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It senses what input is being used and switches. It's worked perfectly as far as my use. I love these speakers and still to this date think this was a very wise purchase. Pick up a good optical cable from lifatec as well. http://www.lifatec.com/toslink2.htmlI also got s pair of quality mediabridge ultra series pure copper banana plug speaker cables. I chose to add a subwoofer with a blue jeans Sc-1 cable and a definitive super cube 2000 subwoofer. The combo is an unreal audiophile dream for those who don't have space for a full size system yet require the best quality sound possible!
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I have not used a subsoofer with the Orb Mini-T -- only a FL + FR stereo setup ... but thinking of how odd it would be to have a sub remain at constant level regardless of how you adjusted the stereo speaker outputs I would presume so.
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Plug in external subwoofer on my ats-1010 ,but no sound coming out to my powered subwoofer?
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actually-I haven't tried to use it I have the subwoofer plugged into back of reciever so do not require the feature. For 100 bucks your getting a lot of subwoofer for your money!!
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I am assuming your subwoofer is not amplified. If that is the case you can bridge this amp and feed it to your subwoofer.