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    Sep 16, 2009, 10:50 AM
    Hooking up sub woofer to Panasonic VSX-305 Home Theatre System
    Can someone please tell me how to hook up the sub woofer that came with our Panasonic VSX-305 Home Theatre System when the back of the receiver that came with it does not show a place to plug it into? This is becoming very frustrating as the manual shows a diagram for the VSX-405 which has a plug in but does not show any diagrams for the VSX-305. Much appreciated.
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    Sep 18, 2009, 10:19 AM

    I'd love to try to help but I can not find any vsx-305 receiver or home theater system on the Panasonic web site. I can find both vsx-305/vsx-405 in Pioneer though.

    There is no subwoofer out on the Pioneer vsx-305, but there is in the Pioneer vsx-405, as you said.

    Please double check the model and give me the model number of the entire system so I can find it.
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    Nov 3, 2009, 10:13 PM
    The manual covers both the VSX 305 and 405/6. The later models (400 series) have facilities to connect a sub-woofer. The VSX 305 does not. Recommend you find a sub-woofer that operates off speaker level inputs and connect your center channel speaker outputs to the sub-woofer then on to the center channel speaker. Mine works great.
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    Nov 4, 2009, 10:36 PM
    What concerns me is:
    Quote Originally Posted by DGeno View Post
    ... the sub woofer that came with our Panasonic VSX-305 Home Theatre System ...
    If you were sold the sub-woofer along with the [Pioneer?] surround system, then either the vendor has cheated you (in which case you should go back to them for a full refund, and go elsewhere), or the sub-woofer is one that can work with the VSX-305.

    There are passive sub-woofers (e.g. the BIC America C-10 PAS) that have both input and output speaker terminals for left and right speakers. You would run wires from the amplifier's L and R Front speaker terminals to the sub-woofer's corresponding INPUT terminals, then more wires from the sub-woofer's OUTPUT terminals to your front left and right speakers.

    Capacitors inside the sub-woofer block low frequencies from reaching the front L and R speakers, those low frequencies (bass) being handled by the passive sub-woofer.

    Let us know if your sub-woofer looks like one of these passive types.

    Daniel

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