SUBWOOFER FOR MUSIC

Aram, a few things: 1) If you can't get to the bi-wiring right away, you should use a jumper cable instead of the connectors that come with the 100's, 2) I auditioned the Paradigm subs and wasn't too impressed since the bass seemed flabby to me -- though great for HT, and 3) You may not need much more oomph so a smaller sub-woofer, say 8 -12", might be just enough to do the trick so long as it gets down to 20Hz -- anything real big might be hard to match since you already have good bass. I own the 100's and found all that to be true, at least to my ears. Good luck. Remember that for frequencies below about 200 Hz, standing waves (which are largely dependent on room dimensions and either reinforce or reduce sound levels at various frequencies) make a huge difference so please be sure you can audition at home.

Yes I am. I'm using them generally for home theater and am currently running them from a sunfire amp which has both a voltage and current output to the mains. I am hooking the mid/tweeter to the voltage? and the woofer to the current? -- maybe it's the other way around. Sounds quite good. Much better than when I used the supplied jumper from Paradigm. For your system, I suspect that a single out that is then split for two speaker inputs would be quite acceptable. Basically, for each channel, you can use either 1) one cable with a single amp connection that is then split and offers two speaker connections or 2) two cables -- you just connect both together at one of your amp outputs (i.e., both into your A right and two more into your A left).

No reason to as far as I know. Let's say that you have four separate cables: Woofer Left (WL), Tweeter Left (TL), Woofer Right (WR) and Tweeter Right (TR). You can hook the amplifier ends of WL and TL to your Left A output and the amplifier ends of WR and TR to your Right A output. There are many fine cables that offer one input to the amp with two separate outputs to the speaker. You may also be happy with high quality jumpers -- hook the speaker cable to the woofer and the jumper from woofer to tweeter inputs. Good luck.

I hope that better audio tech minds than mine are "listening" in to correct me; I don't believe that running A & B would degrade the sound at low to moderate volumes, but I do think you may be running a risk driving your amps at higher volumes. You may wish to e-mail or call your amplifier company to verify.