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- From: leconte@irisa.fr (Thierry Leconte bureau AB 302 poste 7294)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: strong desire to vibrate room
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.133932.20787@irisa.fr>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:39:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.020543.2917@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
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- Organization: IRISA, Rennes, France
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- In article 2917@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au, 85p8379@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au () writes:
- >Hello, I'm a bit confused about connecting a sub-woofer to my amp. I have an
- >NAD 7225 PE rig with two sets of stereo speaker jacks at the back. A pair of 6
- >ohm NAD 8225's is connected to Speaker A jacks, and I want to connect the
- >sub-woofer to Speaker B jacks. The sub-woofer will be a home-made mono
- >12" job, and I plan to incorporate a filter to reject anything above 100 Hz.
- >Sound reasonable ? Reasonable sound ?
-
- Only if you are sure that the NAD 8225's have cut off freqency of 100 Hz
- and the same slope in the bass as your filter.
- If not you must have a hight pass filter in front of the 8225 too ....
-
- > QUESTION: How do i feed the stereo
- >signal into a mono speaker ?
-
- You can't !
- The good solutions are :
- 1 use a double coil speaker
- 2 two speakers for the sub
- 3 an active subwoofer with his own power amplifier and
- an active crossover ....
-
- > One guy told me to just tie left and right
- >outputs of Spkr B together,
-
- Don't believe him
-
- > I somehow don't think this is a good idea, coz it
- >will no doubt short out the stereo signal coming out of Spkr A as well !?
-
- Right
-
- >Others have suggested I use a difference signal, i.e. + of left and + of right
- >connected to sub-woofer, leave earths out of circuit. Someone said this is
- >risky. Why ? Short ? Bang ?
-
- Not risky but you'll only get the difference between left and right and
- not the sum !
-
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