in your room (four times better) and of course offer double the power. In
addition, some state-of-the-art home theater installations have begun
to use a separate subwoofer hooked up to the rear (surround) chan-
nels and we recommend this for the absolute ultimate in performance.
Dual Subwoofer Connections
When hooking up a stereo pair of subwoofers, wiring is quite similar to
traditional high level connections. Here, instead of running both speaker
cables from your receiver or amplifier to the left and right high level terminals
on the subwoofer, you will run the left channel to the left channel subwoofer
and the right channel to the right channel subwoofer. Again, take care to make
red to red (“+”) and black to black (“-”) terminal connections.
Don’t worry that on your left subwoofer the right channel terminals
will be empty and that on the right channel subwoofer the left channel
terminals will be empty—both channels are combined at the subwoofer’s
input stage. There is a possibility that with this type of wiring
you may
need to increase your gain a little bit for proper balance.
Adual subwoofer system using low level connections is equally
simple, just put a Y connector on your LFE output and run one cable
to each subwoofer.
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Your receiver or decoder has a bass management system which
ABSOLUTELY must be set for you to get proper performance from
your system. This is not something that is subtle in its importance.
It is absolutely critical. In general if you are setting up a ProCinema
System using our ProSubs, ProMonitors and ProCenters, follow these
simple instructions:
•If you are hooking up the sub with the low level LFE connection,
set your receiver/decoder bass management to “Sub – Yes” and set
left main, right main, center, left rear and right rear to “Small.”
•If you have a choice of crossover frequency, choose the highest
one available.
•If you use a speaker level connection whereyou run the speaker
wirefrom the receiver to the sub adn then from the sub to the left
and right mains, set “Sub – No,” left main and right main to
“Large,” and center,left and right rear to “Small.”
•Also make sure you properly set the channel balance as outlined
in your receiver/decoder manual. Thereis also moredetailed
information in your ProMonitor manual.
Critical Bass Management Settings