Apr
11
You may have seen pictures of home theater systems or even know someone running dual subwoofers. I’m often asked if this is the way to go and I have to say in my experience it rarely adds anything to the equation that a better, single subwoofer couldn’t accomplish. Of course as with many things audio visual, there are exceptions.
I suppose extremely large home theaters could, in theory at least, benefit from two, lesser subwoofers versus one single; from the standpoint that the sound could be attenuated somewhat over long distances and after firing through dense seating. Once again however a single subwoofer placed closer to the center of the room could overcome much of this.
If after all that, if you still want to try and use two subwoofers I’d caution against using Y-splitters to split the signal. Y-splitters might work just fine for short cable runs but be careful if you’re using them in conjunction with long cable lengths.
The Y-splitters themselves may attenuate the signal and the long cable run will as well, combined it may prove to be enough attenuation to negatively affect the sound. Try using the pass-through of one subwoofer to feed the other or a powered low-level audio distribution amplifier instead.
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