I think that's what I may have to do. I went through the head unit manuals and found that the center channel is on a High pass filter, so it won't pass anything below 250hz.
When the manual says sub out left and sub out right it is simply describing the single RCA sub cable you already have which consists of a left and a right channel. So in essence, you only need to hook up one RCA cable-preferably the sub out one.
That's not what the diagrams show. The sub has 2 physical RCA inputs and the head unit only has the one RCA sub output.
In any case, I bought an RCA Y-cable and put it in at the sub and then a 12' cable from the Y to the sub out of the head unit.
All appears good. The sub does have a high crackling off of it. The sub uses an active speaker and a passive cone. The passive cone is producing the crackle. Looks like I may be exchangeing the unit...
I went back out to take a drive and the sub sounded great. Maybe there was a little something in the mesh that was causing the noise before. If that's the case, it must have worked it's way out.
If your needing a little extra bass (not enough to shake the house down the street), then this is the ticket.