Wiring a subwoofer to monoblocks


Just picked up a REL Quake
REL's manual speaks about differential amps – does this mean
Mono blocks?
No friggin idea how to wire it up.
My i/c’s are fibre optics which break the ground between boxes so wiring the earth to the pre is no use.
To make matters worse, the Audiopax reverse polarity /phase.
Have mailed REL but no reply.

When the manual speaks about wiring to the chassis ground,
How do I check this?

Next problem will be a plan to use two subs and I'm not any clearer from their manual how this will be achieved.

I have spare pre outs on the Supratek but would prefer to run the the sub/s using the hi level inputs.
simon74

Showing 1 response by bdgregory

I've had 2 different fully balanced amps that I wanted to connect my Rel sub to. 1) Ayre V3 - I called the tech support guys. They told me to connect the ground wire to one of the scews on the chassis. I did and it worked great. 2) PS Audio HCA-2 I sent a request on their tech support forum and was told by Paul McGowan who responded to the post to install a 1Kohm resistor in line with the black wire and the negative speaker terminal (I had tried the Ayre chassis screw trick and it did not work).

Not sure if this info is useful to you, but do know that if your amps are fully balanced don't connect the ground wire to the negative speaker post whatever you do.

If they're not fully balanced and you're only concerned about a ground connection to the preamp, one option is to fabricate a ground strap chassis to chassis.