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adding a sub to 2.0 speakers

silk186

silk186

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I'm a poor PhD student so I'm working on a really tight budget for the next several years in the UK. In Canada I had a receiver with tower speakers now space is limited. I was looking to buy used bookshelf speakers and a Lepai TA2020 tamp. I've read that I would need to replace the power supply included with the tamp, lots of space and money. I was also having trouble figuring out what the TA2020 could power and I would need to order from China.

I gave up and I will be getting a pair of Creative T40 series II speakers very cheap in the beginning of next month. Before coming here I had a pair of set of Edifier R201T08 2.1 speaker, and later a pair of Edifier R1000TC 2.0 speakers.

If I bought a cheap 2.1 set it will have bass not a very good sound. If I buy a 2.0 system I'm expecting to get good sound but not much bass. I can't afford a very good 2.1 system so I'm wondering how it would work adding a sub to a 2.0 system. I will plug in into my desktop so I'm assume i just need to plug the sub into the orange and the fronts into the green.

My idea is to pick up the t40s and wait to find someone selling a sub cheap do to a damaged or lost satellite speaker.

Any problems with this idea?
 
First of all, 2.0 vs 2.1 simply denotes if a subwoofer is present. Bass is simply dictated by what the woofers in the system are capable of. There are plenty of 2.0 systems, where the woofers in each speaker produce plenty of bass and even more than what the subwoofer in many 2.1 systems are capable of.

Plugging the sub into the orange jack with the main speakers plugged into green will have you relying on your soundcard to handle all of the bass redirection, etc. I would only go that route if you were talking about a full 5.1 or 7.1 speaker setup. With just a 2.1 setup I would simply have everything running from the green jack, and allow the internal crossover in the sub to extract the bass from that stereo output.
 
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