I took my subs(2 12" Orion DVC's w/Fosgate 2ch amp) out of my TL because they were too loud for my kids and weighing down my car too much. I have them in my garage. I have a Onkyo analog receiver hooked up to a couple old speakers and a sony 5 disc cd changer. I want to play around and see if I can hook my subs up to my receiver. The amp is hooked up to the subs now, how to I get this to work? Keep in mind this is just for my amusement I am not a hillbilly.

 

The problem is that you will need some sort of low pass filter.

YOu probably ran the subsbefore on a dedicated sub amp with a xover.

The receiver won't have one of those. YOu would need to put in a speaker level, or passive, crossover filter.

It is HARD to get one of those to sound right in a home setup - you need big inductors and capacitors, and they sap power. Far better to go to prts Express and get a dedicated sub only amp.

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshow...27&rak=302-610
http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage....up_ID=505&SO=2

 

I have a dedicated sub amp that I want to connect to my receiver. I am not connecting the subs directly into my receiver. I need power cables from my sub amp to connect to a power source. I have sub amy hooked up to my receivers sub pre out on aleady.

 

So what's the problem?

 

I believe I just need to figure out a way to get the two power cables on the sub amp to connect into a single wire with a two prong plug that I can plug into my power strip, but one of the wires is a ground. Has anyone ever done this before, if so please tell me how to go about doing this effectively. It will be in my garage which is a full two car garage, pretty big area.

 

let me rephrase my questions. Does anyone know how to hook up car subs(in sub box) & car sub amp to a home stereo receiver?

 

well car amp would run on 12V DC, and homes are what 110-120V AC, so you would need an inverter or something (i forget, i used to know what exactly it was called), but i wouldn't recommend trying that, as most usually aren't strong enough to run car audio amps, well i guess it depends on your car audio amp. and if they are, they are pretty expensive

I think your money would be better spent buying a new plate amp, meant for DIY home audio subs. i think they have them pretty resonably priced around 250-350W, as these should also have the built in crossover and stuff.