My surround receiver has some issues, so I brought it in for repair. That leaves me with my stereo amplifier (Denon PMA-1500, one could do worse…) and a lot of speakers. Of course I can only hook up the two front speakers. They are full range satellites, so basically I don’t need more. But I’m at home, with too much time on my hand, so I wanted to connect the subwoofer as well. It’s an active subwoofer, so it should be connected un-amplified. My analog Denon only has a pre-out (no digital out), which are two RCA connectors, one red, one white, you know the drill. It’s not difficult to connect those to the subwoofers line-in counterparts, albeit that the subwoofer is not in close proximity of the amplifier.<\/p>\n
So….I googled around to see whether I could use my coaxial digital cables on a regular RCA. Turns out a lot of people are doing it the other way around, just to hook up their set el-cheapo-style. I figured: why not the other way around? I took two coaxial digital cables, connected them correctly (left to left and right to right) and switched on the subwoofer. To hear…..perfectly good sound. YES!<\/p>\n
On the left the back of the amplifier, on the right the back of the subwoofer In case you were wondering, the yellow cables are a pair of Vandenhul D-102 MkIII<\/a>. They are great when using Denon equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My surround receiver has some issues, so I brought it in for repair. That leaves me with my stereo amplifier (Denon PMA-1500, one could do worse…) and a lot of speakers. Of course I can only hook up the two front speakers. They are full range satellites, so basically I don’t need more. But I’m […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audio","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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