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subwoofer cabling

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docw

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Does this require expensive cabling? What about the Y adapter?

Shopping on Amazon leads me to Mediabridge and/or Monster for the latter.

I probably need a 25 ft maybe 30 ft run.

And plan on using a 2 male RCA to 1 female RCA out of my older Roksan integrated amp's pre out (has 2).
http://www.roksan.co.uk/pdfs/KIum3.pdf

In the old home, I had used multiple speaker wire runs.

My new Denon AVR 1913 does not have pre outs, but a subwoofer out.
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/05/08/Denon_AVR-1913_35284898_07.jpg
Roksan manual (Open in New Window)

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Bluejeans best subwoofer cable is nice - barryb 08:12:36 10/19/12 (0)
I bought a 20ft run to replace an ancient Canare cable and found a very worthwhile improvement. Bluejeans is fast reliable and offers very fine value.
RE: subwoofer cabling - pbarach 13:24:41 10/18/12 (2)
No, expensive cabling isn't needed for a subwoofer. And save yourself some money by buying what you need from monoprice.com or bluejeanscable.com
- RE: subwoofer cabling pt 2 - docw 11:48:09 10/20/12 (0)
  sorry, no edit function for video asylum
  
  see link for the cable I found, and they have others.
  
  I live about 15 min local drive from their place, and wife is willing to pick it up.
  - AR cable w Y adapter (Open in New Window)
- RE: subwoofer cabling - docw 11:31:13 10/20/12 (0)
  bluejeans is waaay more expensive and describes a good Belden cable with higher quality termination compared to monoprice.
  
  I live close to monoprice and another one I found by googling. The other company seems good, the phone advice was solid and correct and the cable is probably China manufactured AR cable with pretty nice looking outer coat and what seems to be sufficient.
  
  My Roksan amp has 2 preamp outs, so I will be using one of them for my current system (2.1). The sub plate amp has stereo input and output (white-red). I believe a simple connection to one channel is sufficient for bass, or should I also use a Y connector there?
  
  The other setup being installed will be using a Denon AVR 1913 which has a single output on the back for sub LFE.

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