You want your subs to be the deepest, tightest and driest they can be, the last thing you want is an amp driving another amp, that’s just wrong and gives one note bass, that’s why line level drive the best for them.
The last thing you would want is to drive them from say a tube amps etc speaker output.
Probably the only amp driven output that could compete with line level, would come from an amp like a Krells or similar, that have absolutely no ? on bass performance.
Cheers George
I gave you more credit than that, guess I was wrong.
In this scenario, no amp is driving another amp. You are completely off the mark. The only thing that is happening is that the main amp is sending a low level signal to the sub amp. This works beautifully and makes it much easier to make the main speakers and sub(s) coherent.
Oz