connecting preamp to amp

pglbook

I am replacing a preamp in my system and have disconnected all of the cables from my old preamp and am now confused as to how to reconnect them to the new preamp.

Do I connect the RCA cables from my power amp to the input or output jack at the back of the preamplifier.

The back of my new preamplifier (Eastern Electric Avant) has 3 RCA Signal Input jacks (RCA 1, RCA 2, RCA 3). And it has 2 RCA Signal Output jacks (Output 1, Output 2).

To which jacks on the back of the preamplifier should I install the RCA cables from my CD player, phono preamp, and amplifier (McCormack DNA 0.5 power amp)?

I thought this would be easy but it has been a long time since I had to do this, ha.

Thanks.

invalid

Output goes to amplifier and input is for your source equipment.

pglbook

invalid wrote: »

Output goes to amplifier and input is for your source equipment.

Thanks. Just to clarify that the below is correct;

(1) I connect the power amp RCA cables to the RCA Signal Output jack (Output 1) at the rear of the preamp?

(2) I connect the CD player and phono preamp RCA cables to the RCA Signal Input jacks (RCA 1, RCA 2) at the rear of the preamp?

VR3

You put your CD IN CD player.

The cd player sends the signal OUT to go IN your preamp

The preamp sends the signal OUT to go IN your amp

The amp sends the signal OUT to go IN your speakers

The speakers sends the signal OUT to go IN your ears

Clipdat

Can you elaborate? I'm not following. How do I connect iPhone? Where is the Bluetooth connection made?

Also my soundbar is losing it's WiFi and my subwoofer is thumping. If you could help with that I would appreciate it so much.

VR3

You have to stick your hands in a blender for those devices to aid in connection

pglbook

Clipdat wrote: »

Can you elaborate? I'm not following. How do I connect iPhone? Where is the Bluetooth connection made?

Also my soundbar is losing it's WiFi and my subwoofer is thumping. If you could help with that I would appreciate it so much.

ok

jbreezy5

VR3 wrote: »

You put your CD IN CD player.

The cd player sends the signal OUT to go IN your preamp

The preamp sends the signal OUT to go IN your amp

The amp sends the signal OUT to go IN your speakers

The speakers sends the signal OUT to go IN your ears

The silkscreen printing wore off on my ears and the signal OUT from the speakers doesn’t know where to go.

Anyone know where I can get some black paint as a temporary fix?

mhardy6647

VR3 wrote: »

You put your CD IN CD player.

The cd player sends the signal OUT to go IN your preamp

The preamp sends the signal OUT to go IN your amp

The amp sends the signal OUT to go IN your speakers

The speakers sends the signal OUT to go IN your ears

To quote (or at least to paraphrase) little Alex -- a bit of the the old IN-OUT.






PS My favorite Easter egg from that great (if somewhat difficult) movie.

audioluvr

A clockwork orange was a terrible movie.

mhardy6647

Well, I don't agree, but be that as it may.
If you don't like the movie, you might wish to read Anthony Burgess' original novel (which is also quite remarkable, and masterfully written).

Not that anyone cares, but: Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and A Clockwork Orange are Kubrick's masterpieces as far as I am concerned -- and three of the greatest motion pictures extant (again, IMO and FWIW, which admittedly ain't much).

Both of the latter two are difficult movies, though -- albeit in rather different ways. But they're also sort of yin and yang views of the same (then) not-too-distant future.

msg

Exactly this, I was just writing the same thing. I've found it easier to describe and explain if you think in terms of the flow of "Music" from origin to destination. @pglbook - you're kind of coming from the wrong direction, but that's okay, because some people go both ways and thoroughly confuse themselves.

VR3 wrote: »

1. You put your CD IN CD player.
2. The cd player sends the signal OUT to go IN your preamp
3. The preamp sends the signal OUT to go IN your amp
4. The amp sends the signal OUT to go IN your speakers
5. The speakers sends the signal OUT to go IN your ears

pglbook wrote: »

Just to clarify that the below is correct; Yes, it's correct, but try to think in terms of Source to Destination

(1) I connect the power amp RCA cables to the RCA Signal Output jack (Output 1) at the rear of the preamp? You connect the preamp RCA OUT to the power amp RCA IN

(2) I connect the CD player and phono preamp RCA cables to the RCA Signal Input jacks (RCA 1, RCA 2) at the rear of the preamp? Yes, you connect the CD player and Phono preamp OUTs to the RCA INs on the rear of your preamp.

audioluvr

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Well, I don't agree, but be that as it may.
If you don't like the movie, you might wish to read Anthony Burgess' original novel (which is also quite remarkable, and masterfully written).

Not that anyone cares, but: Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and A Clockwork Orange are Kubrick's masterpieces as far as I am concerned -- and three of the greatest motion pictures extant (again, IMO and FWIW, which admittedly ain't much).

Both of the latter two are difficult movies, though -- albeit in rather different ways. But they're also sort of yin and yang views of the same (then) not-too-distant future.

I read the book first which is probably why I hated the movie.

msg

audioluvr wrote: »

A clockwork orange was a terrible movie.

It's disturbing, but still not as bad as the Beatles.

I liked Eyes Wide Shut. Most people hated that one, too.

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Well, I don't agree, but be that as it may.
If you don't like the movie, you might wish to read Anthony Burgess' original novel (which is also quite remarkable, and masterfully written).

Not that anyone cares, but: Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and A Clockwork Orange are Kubrick's masterpieces as far as I am concerned -- and three of the greatest motion pictures extant (again, IMO and FWIW, which admittedly ain't much).

Both of the latter two are difficult movies, though -- albeit in rather different ways. But they're also sort of yin and yang views of the same (then) not-too-distant future.

I'll have to check out the Dr. Strangelove film and the Anthony Burgess novel. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I found A Clockwork Orange to be a bit of the psychological torture-y kind of disturbing and violent. I don't like that kind of content, even if it's just a few scenes. Typically don't revisit films like that. They make me feel physically sick. Like, when @Hermitism did all those images of people, and one of them was that creepy human centipede thing. I had no idea what it was, and then I looked it up and was sick for weeks. I haven't spoken to him since.

mhardy6647

audioluvr wrote: »

mhardy6647 wrote: »

Well, I don't agree, but be that as it may.
If you don't like the movie, you might wish to read Anthony Burgess' original novel (which is also quite remarkable, and masterfully written).

Not that anyone cares, but: Dr. Strangelove, 2001, and A Clockwork Orange are Kubrick's masterpieces as far as I am concerned -- and three of the greatest motion pictures extant (again, IMO and FWIW, which admittedly ain't much).

Both of the latter two are difficult movies, though -- albeit in rather different ways. But they're also sort of yin and yang views of the same (then) not-too-distant future.

I read the book first which is probably why I hated the movie.

Absolutely fair!
It is a remarkable book.

mhardy6647

Dr. Strangelove is a wonderful movie, in every sense of the word.

Interesting bit of lore I read (on the internet -- in full disclosure!): the B-52 interiors were, it is said, more or less educated guesses... but the Defense Department was allegedly very surprised by their accuracy. Surprising the US DoD is... how to put this? ... not a best practice.

A very young James Earl Jones is one of the crew members (Lt. Lothar Zogg) on Major Kong's (Slim Pickens') B-52.

Clipdat

I think I see a vintage Moog synthesizer in the background.

F1nut

Slim Pickens...Yee-haw

msg

"Send a wire to the main office and tell them I said...OW!"

mhardy6647

Clipdat wrote: »

I think I see a vintage Moog synthesizer in the background.

Yeah, and the DoD weren't happy that bit of confidential info on the BUFFs was shared with the great unwashed.