Jolida integrated with remote and pre-outs?


Underwood Hi-Fi lists their Jolida 1501RC as having pre-outs, but I don't see any in my research of the back panel. Does Jolida have a remote-integrated with pre-outs? I want to run a 2.1 system...
realremo

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Realremo - is your question about the pre-outs because you want to be able to connect the Jolida to a subwoofer in your 2.1 system?

If so, another option, and one that is preferred by a good many subwoofer manufacturers, is to connect the speaker terminals on the amp to high-level inputs on the subwoofer, rather than go from line-level outputs on the amp to corresponding inputs on the sub.

Sorry if that's not pertinent to your question but your mention of wanting to run a 2.1 system made me think it might be.
Realremo - yes, that's exactly the way to do it if you want to use the high-level inputs on the sub and have only one set of speaker terminals. I used that kind of connection on an HSU sub, at HSU's recommendation, and am doing the same on a Mirage sub now.

As HSU explained it to me, with a powered sub all that's coming from the speaker terminal connections on the amp to the sub is frequency and amplitude information, very little current is actually moving through the cables and it has no effect on the signal going to the main speakers. They said, in fact, that you don't even need the same gauge or quality of speaker wires as are going from the amp to your main speakers.

On my amp with five-way binding posts I connected the main speaker cables with spades and used bananas plugged into the ends of the terminals for cables going to the sub. I tried the setup with both the high and low-level connections to the sub and found it much easier to integrate the sub using the high-level connections, even without the ability to high-pass the speakers.