Hi,
My brother has been living with me for a month now and tonight he decided to hook up his HTIB speakers which contains a passive subwoofer to my old Sony receiver which only has a powered subwoofer output.
We found out that the Sony receiver only has a powered output so I thought if we take an RCA cable and connect it from the Sony receivers powered sub output and connect it to the HTIB receivers RCA input (red or white - tried both) we may be able to power the sub that way.
I thought we had it working because we did the auto calibration mic thing and my brother claims he heard the subwoofer rumble during the test yet when we tested it with my DVE disc and selected the LFE test there was no sound, same goes for dvds and tv.
Is it possible to hook up a passive sub to a powered sub output on the Sony receiver? OR do I have something wrong with the connections?
I saw an ad in the paper this week for powered sub for 249.99 which seems like a good deal so I may just buy him that if we cant connect a passive sub to the receiver.
CONNECTION: Sony Receiver Sub Out > HTIB RCA IN > Only Sub hooked up
Thanks to everyone for helping me in the past and hopefully with this question.
My brother has been living with me for a month now and tonight he decided to hook up his HTIB speakers which contains a passive subwoofer to my old Sony receiver which only has a powered subwoofer output.
We found out that the Sony receiver only has a powered output so I thought if we take an RCA cable and connect it from the Sony receivers powered sub output and connect it to the HTIB receivers RCA input (red or white - tried both) we may be able to power the sub that way.
I thought we had it working because we did the auto calibration mic thing and my brother claims he heard the subwoofer rumble during the test yet when we tested it with my DVE disc and selected the LFE test there was no sound, same goes for dvds and tv.
Is it possible to hook up a passive sub to a powered sub output on the Sony receiver? OR do I have something wrong with the connections?
I saw an ad in the paper this week for powered sub for 249.99 which seems like a good deal so I may just buy him that if we cant connect a passive sub to the receiver.
CONNECTION: Sony Receiver Sub Out > HTIB RCA IN > Only Sub hooked up
Thanks to everyone for helping me in the past and hopefully with this question.