Hello,
I'm installing a subwoofer in my family room. The previous owner had speaker wire run for surround in the room including a four wire bundle of 16 guage wire for the subwoofer. My question is how should I connect the speaker wire to the subwoofer (a Polk PSW 125)? It looks like the Polk is designed to either use an RCA line connection to the receiver's subwoofer pre-amp out plug or run the front speaker wires from the receiver to the sub and then from the sub to the front speakers. Iwas thinking of just taking an old audio RCA cable and cut off the ends and splice these onto two of the subwoofer speaker wires - making an RCA subwoofer cable. Or take two of the wires and run them from the left front output from the receiver to the sub and then from the sub connect the other two wires to the left front speaker. It seems like the RCA way is simpler and more direct but is there a disadvantage to attaching RCA phono terminators on speaker wire?
I'm installing a subwoofer in my family room. The previous owner had speaker wire run for surround in the room including a four wire bundle of 16 guage wire for the subwoofer. My question is how should I connect the speaker wire to the subwoofer (a Polk PSW 125)? It looks like the Polk is designed to either use an RCA line connection to the receiver's subwoofer pre-amp out plug or run the front speaker wires from the receiver to the sub and then from the sub to the front speakers. Iwas thinking of just taking an old audio RCA cable and cut off the ends and splice these onto two of the subwoofer speaker wires - making an RCA subwoofer cable. Or take two of the wires and run them from the left front output from the receiver to the sub and then from the sub connect the other two wires to the left front speaker. It seems like the RCA way is simpler and more direct but is there a disadvantage to attaching RCA phono terminators on speaker wire?