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Title: connecting an ext amp to home theatre
Post by: sygdwm on October 30, 2003, 03:09:38 PM

i am trying to hook up an external seperate amp (niles) to my existing stereo receiver (yamaha). i can get sound via 1 pr of rca's from tape out of yamaha to main in on niles, but i have no control over the volume w/ said receiver.  ??? any help is appreciated. thanks, d.

Title: Re:connecting an ext amp to home theatre
Post by: dmonterisi on October 30, 2003, 03:22:16 PM

you need a receiver with a pre-amp out to do what you want to do, i believe.  then the volume is controlled by the pre-amp stage of the integrated receiver as if you were running separates.

Title: Re:connecting an ext amp to home theatre
Post by: sygdwm on October 30, 2003, 03:39:25 PM

thats what i thought. does radio shack have anything that could maybe do what i want?

Title: Re:connecting an ext amp to home theatre
Post by: leegeddy on November 13, 2003, 10:04:17 PM

Quote from: dubardgriffin on October 30, 2003, 03:09:38 PM

i am trying to hook up an external seperate amp (niles) to my existing stereo receiver (yamaha). i can get sound via 1 pr of rca's from tape out of yamaha to main in on niles, but i have no control over the volume w/ said receiver.  ??? any help is appreciated. thanks, d.

you can try a speaker leve > line level converter if you have a 2nd set of speaker taps on your receiver.  basically these gadgets incorporate a step-down transformer to bring the levels down to line levels.

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