mental midget needs help!

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Here are the particulars:
New Denon AVR-883 A/V receiver

B&W DM602.5 S3 front, DM601 S 3 rear surrounds, LCR600 S3 center speakers.
Mitsubishi CS-32307 TV 32" circa 1997.
Mirage powered subwoofer from the stone age.
The good news is that all five B&W speakers are connected correctly and working, as well as a DVD player and a VCR, BUT...
1. The TV audio is not coming through the receiver (unless I want to blow up the receiver by turning it all the way up). The audio outputs from the TV are connected to the TV audio inputs on the receiver, so this makes no sense to me.
2. The prehistoric subwoofer was meant to be hooked up as a left/right pair of speakers by cavemen. It does have two audio low level inputs (L/R). Naturally, the receiver has one preamp out, making for an interesting hookup, which, of course, doesn't work (unless you like the sound of a subwoofer breaking up). I have tried hooking the receiver preamp out to each channel individually, as well as a Y jack to both inputs.
Any suggestions? I thought I knew a little bit about this stuff. I guess living through the sixties proved to be more dangerous than previously thought.

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Topic - mental midget needs help! - fossil 19:51:31 01/13/03 (4)

Use sound from VCR tuner - reorgs0 08:03:12 01/14/03 (0)

Re: mental midget needs help! - Dman 06:01:59 01/14/03 (2)

Re: mental midget is losing his mind - fossil 18:51:51 01/14/03 (1)

Re: mental midget is losing his mind - Dman 05:40:38 01/15/03 (0)

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