I recently acquired some new speakers from a friend, one of those is a RW-8. It had been several years since he used it, but he said it worked great. Power light comes on, but it's extremely quiet. I've tried the LFE port, a mono cable to the left or right channel, and a Y-cable to the L/R channels which seems to be the best, but even when I turn the volume knob on the sub all the way up it's very difficult to tell it's producing bass over the other speakers (bookcase KSB 1.1). If I disconnect the bookcase speakers and only have the sub connected, I can turn the volume on the receiver up and get some decent sound out of it, but as crazy as it seems... I don't want to listen to JUST the bass. I've maxed all the volume controls for the sub on the receiver as well, and the sub still barely audible over the other small speakers. Any suggestions? I only know the very basics, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here.
I'm using this with a Denon AVR-1706 receiver, I've also tried it with a Sherwood RD-7106 with the same result (connected to sub pre-out).