I have just purchased a Denon Home theatre receiver which supports 7.1 surround sound. I am using a Bose center channel speaker, two Bose corner “cubes” as my front speakers, and a Bose sub-woofer. The center channel is wired directly to my Denon A/V receiver. However, front “cube” speakers are wired directly to the Bose Sub-Woofer, which splits the inputs to the sub, and the cubes. The inputs to the sub woofer are connected to my “front speakers” outputs on the Denon A/V.
My question is the following. Would I be better off wiring my Bose cubes directly to the Denon A/V receiver “front speaker” outputs, and connecting the sub-woofer to the sub-woofer output on the Denon, OR still using the Bose internal splitting out to the cubes?
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First of all, Bose doesn’t make a sub woofer; their frequency range doesn’t go down low enough to be considered one. They call their low frequency driver an “Acoustimass module” to get around that little technicality. Next, those little cube speakers would be literally blown apart if you plugged them directly into the back of your receiver; they aren’t designed to handle the full frequency range. Last, most receivers have connections for powered sub woofers, so unless your Denon facilitates an amp for a passive sub, it won’t work at all. The way you have it hooked up is the best way with the equipment that you have.
I understand that most question askers here award the best answer to the answer that they want to hear, so I’ll sacrifice my best answer contention by saying that your best option would be to get rid of the Bose speakers and get something of a little more substance. Do you realize what you could have gotten with the money that you spent on the Bose? You could have done MUCH better for MUCH less…
like mrk… said, your little cubes will be destroyed. they only handle about 30W peak, and a very specific frequency range controlled by your lifestyle system’s signal processor. they are actually powered from your acustimass module which is not really a subwoofer. if you want to use the denon, then sell your bose system and buy all new speakers with the money, and buy a seperate self-powered subwoofer. make good note of you’re denon’s power output RMS per channel as you shop for your new speakers, and buy speaker wire no less than 16 gauge if it’s output is anywhere near 50RMS per channel. either that, or keep your lifestyle system and return your denon to the store before you set fire to your cute little cubes. this is all written assuming you have a complete lifestyle system, if you don’t then please elaborate.
Good choice to go with Denon Bad Choice to go with bose. The problem here is Denon like most other good amps Have power and use High Current Something that bose doesent have the technology for. Those cubes cant take the power that you amplifier has so you will pretty much ruin them.