Ray Cole

Thanks Andrew! I will take a look.

Thanks for the welcome and the photo with the jumpers circled! Unfortunately, the sub is pretty old and I don't have an owner's manual for it. Will search online and see if I can track one down. I think the y-cable solution is likely the best option, but if I can find a manual for the sub, I will see what it suggests.

Thanks Andrew! A y-cable might be just the thing. My sub has no speaker-level inputs, so that top diagram won't work in my case, but an RCA Y-cable might.

Sk1Bum, thanks for the welcome! The sub is a little Soundmatters SubStation. It is a fairly minimal powered subwoofer. For inputs is has either a 1/8-inch minijack or RCA mono in. There's a dial for setting the crossover from 60 to 200 Hz, and a phase dial and a power on/off switch. That's about it. It has no speaker terminals. Can't find much info about it as they aren't sold anymore, but here's the Crutchfield page for it: https://www.crutchfield.com/S-6rlJVtlWhRi/p_602SUS100B/Soundmatters-SUBstage.html

Hi everyone, I am new to Carver. My father passed away a few years ago, and my mom a few weeks ago. So my wife and I have moved into my inherited family home where my father had a Carver HR-742 stereo receiver that was still in the house. Since the movers dropped my Kenwood stereo receiver, I've just hooked up the carver to my office computer sound system, where it is currently driving a pair of JBL Control 1x bookshelf speakers. These little speakers would probably benefit from a sub, and I happen to have one handy, but I don't see a subwoofer output on the back of the HR-742. Can anyone suggest a good way to hook up the sub? The right channel seems to be quite noisy too, so I'm interested in hearing thoughts on what might be causing that and how to fix it. Thanks!