Connecting The Subwoofer To Your Audio System; Connecting Home Theater Equipment; Connecting Stereo Equipment Using Low/Line Level - PSB SubSeries 500 Owner's Manual

VIII. Connecting The Subwoofer To Your Audio System
There are several ways to connect a subwoofer into a system. For best
results overall, we recommend using Low/Line Level connections.
When making a Low/Line Level connection, be sure to follow the coding
on the cables to maintain left-to-left and right-to-right. Use high quality,
well-shielded, low capacitance RCA cables of minimal necessary length,
to avoid picking up noise in the cable runs. When making a High/Speaker
Level connection, in addition to maintaining left-to-left and right-to-right,
be sure to use the coding of the pair of wires in each speaker cable to
maintain phase—+/red/rib/writing to +/red/rib/writing and -
/white/smooth/clear to -/white/smooth/clear. We recommend minimum 16
gauge wire and, for longer runs, larger (lower gauge) wire.
A.

Connecting Home Theater Equipment

(see Figure 3, page 19):
You can use a single RCA cable to connect the Subwoofer Output
of your receiver, integrated amplifier, or preamplifier to either right or
left side of the Low Level Input on the subwoofer.
Home Theater receivers, integrated amplifiers, surround sound
processors, and preamplifiers usually have a special Subwoofer
Output to provide the optional (Dolby Digital 5.1) Low Frequency
Effects (LFE) Channel present on many movie and other
programming sources. To reproduce these deep-bass effects (when
they are present), supplementing the bass information in the main
channels, this output must be connected to the subwoofer.
The subwoofer output/LFE signal is filtered by most
receivers/processors. The subwoofer's variable low pass filter is
usually not required and should be bypassed by using the LFE Input
only if the receiver/processor subwoofer/LFE output is low pass
filtered.
With some Home Theater electronics and settings, connecting the
Subwoofer Output does not provide the low frequencies from
normal stereo music through the subwoofer. If this is true of your
system, you can make two connections. First, connect the
Subwoofer Output from the electronics to the right or left side of the
Low Level or LFE Input of the subwoofer, as described above. Then
also connect the High Level Output from the electronics to the High
Level Input of our subwoofer, as described below. Most Home
Theater electronics will not require this second connection, which, if
not required will produce greater bass than intended.
B. Connecting Stereo Equipment Using Low/line Level
(see Figure 4, page 20):
If your receiver or integrated amplifier has preamplifier outputs, or if
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