theperson67

I thought you needed a pair of outputs on the subwoofer to connect to the speaker inputs on the speaker for that to work. The sub only has inputs, right?

I didn't blow it, I turned it on a little bit ago and it sounded fine. But I would still like to know if it's possible to blow/ruin the subwoofer if I turned the volume up too high on the receiver and then turn the volume up even more one the digital screen on the subwoofer. There is a speaker hooked up to one channel of the receiver using speaker wire, and the subwoofer is hooked up to the other channel of the receiver using speaker wire.

Right now, my setup consists of a 2 channel receiver, a low quality speaker, and the Klipsch RW-12D subwoofer. The subwoofer is connected using the left and right speaker outputs on the receiver to the left and right inputs on the subwoofer using speaker wire I found from an older setup. I tested this setup a couple days ago and it worked, with the low quality speaker just testing the music portion to see if its going through. Today, I turned it on, and the subwoofer was set to about +2 db on the digital menu, and the receiver was turning off saying 'protect' on the screen. So I moved the receiver away from the subwoofer, and I turned it up again and it seemed to stay on this time but one more dial turn on the receiver and the subwoofer suddenly got a lot quieter. My windows were still rattling, but the front woofer was not blowing air or moving as much as it was on the same volume level, as it was a minute before. My question is, did i blow the subwoofer? Did the receiver go into some kind of safe mode and quiet the audio output? Is it possible to blow the subwoofer with my current setup?