Dumb ? but what hooks it up to the receiver? I just bought the sw 311 and have the 3313ci Denon. Right know I have the m850 monster cable 12 ft and remodeling the basement. Instead of running wires through the walls I would like to run wireless ? Dumb ? but what hooks it up to the receiver? I just bought the sw 311 and have the 3313ci Denon. Right know I have the m850 monster cable 12 ft and remodeling the basement. Instead of running wires... » Read More Dumb ? but what hooks it up to the receiver? I just bought the sw 311 and have the 3313ci Denon. Right know I have the m850 monster cable 12 ft and remodeling the basement. Instead of running wires through the walls I would like to run wireless ? « Show Less
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The larger wireless box, and the smaller box with the cord plugs into the subwoofer. I have it in my upstairs family room because there was no way to run a cable to where the subwoofer is. I also am finishing a total gut rehab of my basement as well and ran the subwoofer cable through the walls. I'd say it is probably better to have a direct connection if you can, and its cheaper. I got a 25ft sub cable off amazon very cheap.
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Klipsch WA-2 needs to be physically connected to your receiver using RCA cable. That's the reason klipsch provides you a small RCA cable (poor quality). Connect one end of the RCA to sub-woofer port and one end to the WA-2. You can now keep your sub wherever you want of course power connection to the sub is needed.
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This is to connect the base unit to the speakers. You still need to connect base unit to the the receiver using the the Bose DB style connector (I have an older Bose system). What I was able to find was and old MAC video DB cable (M-F) that connected to the Bose cable then ran that out of the wall to the base unit. However, when connecting to the receiver the L-R channels are switched so adjust the connections accordingly. So now I have 2 small cables coming out of the wall going to the base unit. Very clean.
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I have a similar issue with multiple sets of speakers I wanted to run off Zone 2. I connected two 4 foot lengths of speaker wire (R&L;) to the Zone 2 posts on the receiver, and used them as "pig-tails." Then I routed all my various zone 2 speaker wires to the pig tails, connected pos to pos and neg to neg. Works fine.
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hi Jeffrey -short answer: I want my receiver to receive input from my cable (for cable tv) and transmit it to the TV via hdmi cable; that rear-end view of the model showed that there was a "cable receptacle", but that turned out to be only for FM radio. long answer: I'm running all my connections through the wall, and wanted this to be covered as well. The only "long" connection would be the lengthy HDMI cable connection between Onkyo receiver and my Sharp HDTV. Everything else (connections from cable company, nintendo wii, Blu Ray player, Alpha Gamma player, PS1/2/3/4/5/6, etc should all be going through the receiver -- all of which will sit in one corner of the room). Thanks :) hi Jeffrey -short answer: I want my receiver to receive input from my cable (for cable tv) and transmit it to the TV via hdmi cable; that rear-end view of the model showed that there was a "cable receptacle", but that turned out to be only for FM radio. long answer: I'm running all my connections through the wall, and wanted this to be covered as well. The only "long" connection would be the lengthy HDMI cable connection between Onkyo receiver and my Sharp HDTV. Everything else (connections from cable company, nintendo wii, Blu Ray player, Alpha Gamma... » Read More hi Jeffrey -short answer: I want my receiver to receive input from my cable (for cable tv) and transmit it to the TV via hdmi cable; that rear-end view of the model showed that there was a "cable receptacle", but that turned out to be only for FM radio. long answer: I'm running all my connections through the wall, and wanted this to be covered as well. The only "long" connection would be the lengthy HDMI cable connection between Onkyo receiver and my Sharp HDTV. Everything else (connections from cable company, nintendo wii, Blu Ray player, Alpha Gamma player, PS1/2/3/4/5/6, etc should all be going through the receiver -- all of which will sit in one corner of the room). Thanks :) « Show Less
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Standard exterior co-ax cable is recommended. If in an area with trees a pre-amp is also recommended.I live within the 100 mile radius for the cm 3020, but I am surrounded by 60' trees, so I also use a pre-amp.My signal reception doubled because of the antennae and pre-amp.Jim
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John L. Moncrief says: "The receiver works and the subwoofer works with the speaker wire connections."So R u using speaker wire to power the sub, oR R u Using a subwoofer cable, Or are U using both? U need a Sub cable/spdif cable, 1 N the same in name. "So why doesn't the RCA connection work when plugged into the receiver??"If u have the RCA and Speaker wire plugged up 2gether then there will be a prob. U can only power a sub w/A cable. Hope it helps BTW what type of sub are u running?
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Thanks for the info. I ordered the unit and have owned it for about a week now. Appears to be a very good receiver.
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Depending on the wireless receiver output, you will use a 1/4 inch or XLR cable and plug it into the top right for fastest effective result. This input you have to adjust the volume with the gain nob (only draw back in my experience) the jack takes both XLR and 1/4"
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i don't understand the previous two answers. I have a powered soundbar and connect to my Dennon receiver via either the HDMI output from the receiver or the toslink fiber optics output from my Dennon Receiver. Wy wouldn't you run all inputs into your receiver and then from receiver to sound bar.
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Denon does not have plII dsp modes. It runs quite less hotter. It has assignable triggers rather than only a second zone trigger. In my case, I wanted a dc trigger for my main zone sub to turn it off and on remotely, otherwise it won't turn off for 15 minutes. Onkyo didn't have a main zone trigger. Onkyo runs EXTREMELY HOT, but is perfectly safe. Onkyo has easier networking setup (for noobies). Onkyo's customer service is quite easier to deal with when calling in. Denon's denonlink has some flaws many will encounter. Onkyo's power supply is bigger, allowing for more headroom and depth, but most people not very audiophile will notice at all. SO far, these are the only real comparisons that are worth thinking about, the rest are most likely things you won't use. If you're an audio guy and will be running most everything straight to your hd tv for video and let the receiver handle the audio via optical out of the tv, then I highly recommend onkyo for the big $$$ savings and still the same if not better audio performance, isnt that what you are buying it for?!?!? LOL. If you are foolishly looking for a non flagship receiver to have the best of both, you will not be able to beat a good tv video chip in deinterlacing or video performance with a non flagship reciever. Only flagship recivers costing plenty more include top of the line video processing, such as a yamaha z7 (running a couple grand of curse). That receiver had a perfect video test score with all benchmark tests and ridiculous audio performance close to denon's flagship combo (about $10,000 with the processor and amp).
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My son has one of these and he is very happy with it, it works well for him. He put it in his attic and had no problems with it. The one I ordered and sent back did not work for me. I'm quite sure it is because of where I am located. I went back to a simple rabbit ears configuration which was also from RCA and it works ok for me. Hope this helps.
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my sub is starting to get weak for some reason. do you guys know if i can hook up a powered sub to this receiver? im not sure if i can since the sub this came with connects via regular speaker wires (black and red)
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there are different ways to wire it, if your receiver has a sub-out plug on it just get a powered subwoofer cable and plug into either r or l on the woofer. Does not matter which one. hope this helps.
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Michael, it sounds like you're getting your TV signal from your roof antenna (over-the-air) and directly sending that signal to your TV. If that is the case, you are by-passing your receiver (Denon). That's why you're not getting anything when you select TV / Satellite mode on the Denon. I believe you can approach it two ways; 1) re-wire the roof antenna signal, from your TV, and instead, plug it into the Denon receiver (TV input). The Denon will simply pass the TV information to your TV via the HDMI cable you have connected between the Denon and your TV monitor (TV screen), and amplify the audio portion of the signal, allowing for surround sound etc. 2) You can keep your current connection between the roof antenna and your TV monitor, but in order to get the audio signal to your receiver, you will have to connect a wire from your TV (audio output) to the receiver. In this set up, I'm not sure of the best receiver audio input jack to use, but I believe the choices to be TV (in this case, there won't be a TV signal, just audio; I don't think it matters) or an Aux audio input. Whichever path you take, just make sure that you select the corresponding mode on the receiver. Example, if you choose to send the audio signal to the receivers Aux audio input, then select Aux on the receiver when you want the sound to come out of the receiver. I believe the preferred route would be #1 however. Hope this helps, good luck.
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I am looking to buy this receiver and wanted to know the same thing. Did you ever get an answer?
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I read that about the Denon and ended up with the Onkyo 876 for $700 less. It's been rock solid for me and competes quite nicely with the 3808, depending on whether you can do without the internet radio feature. Denon has also had unhappy customers with this as well.
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Ugh I'm using red white cords to a receiver I'm no TECHY cant even reply here... There is a switch says internal external speakers.... I have speakers that use wire... And I have speakers where the red white cable would plug straight in without need of recieved hope this helps I'm very satisfied