I was wondering on a home audio subwoofer. What is the extra speaker terminals on the backside of the sub. How do you hook up speakers on these terminals?
If you have the sub woofer connected to the receiver via the pre out, you can not connect other speakers to it. If you have it connected via the speaker terminal on your receiver then you can connect a set of speakers to it. Most sub woofer in the market are powered, this way it does not require the receiver to power to the speaker (sub woofer). Older receiver does not have a pre out for sub woofers (thus you connect them to the speaker terminal left and right (red and white), then connect the left and right speakers to the sub woofer. Hope this will help you out.
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If your subwoofer is a powered sub, you will probably need to use a Coax cable to connect them using that port. If you have a low end or older receiver, it may not have a coax speaker jack to connect the sub woofer with.
They're both pretty rightin a standard home theater setup you will only use the line level input. However, sometimes for a stereo setup you would use the speaker level inputs. You would do that if A: you're receiver doesn't have a sub out, or B: if it is primary going to be used for music you would run the speaker wire from the receiver to the sub, and then from the sub to you're front L and R speakers. The advantage to that is a lot of subs have a variable high frequency cut off (lets you decide exactly what frequency the sub plays and what it pass' along to the front channels). This can make it easier to blend (make it sound like all the sound is coming from the front two speakers) the subwoofer with the other speakers. Also it might be worth noting that some subs will let you connect both, but thats usually higher end models.
