How Do I Hook Up Two Subwoofers to My Home Theater?

You can kick up the bass with two subwoofers in your home theater system.

Subwoofers provide the low-frequency kick in music and special effects for your home theater system. Most systems employ one subwoofer, and home theater receivers and amplifiers are built with one subwoofer output, a mono RCA jack. But if you want to ramp up the bass in your system, it's not difficult to add a second subwoofer.

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Single male RCA to dual female RCA splitter cable
Two subwoofer cables

Instructions

- 1
  
  Plug the male connector of your splitter cable into the "sub out" jack on the rear panel of the home theater receiver of amplifier. This is sometimes labeled "LFE out."
- 2
  
  Plug the ends of your subwoofer cables into the female ends of the splitter cable.
- 3
  
  Plug the other ends of the subwoofer cables into each subwoofer's "line in" jack, located on the subwoofer's rear panel.