Receiver to amp
Home Theatre
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How do you wire this?
How does the wattage work?
How does the wattage work?
Everything I own burned in the fire!!!!!!!!!!
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You have to have pre-outs built into the reciever. Usually they have jumper pins connected from main in to pre out on the back of the reciever. Make sure all power is off and remove the pins (save for later use). Use a pair of interconnects to hook the L & R pre outputs to the inputs of a seperate amplifier. This takes the low level pre amp signal of the reciever and routes it out to the seperate amp via the pre outs. The main (usually front) speakers need to now be hooked up to the seperate amp.
Now the seperate amp is running the main speakers while being controlled by the reciever. If it's an HT (multi-channel) reciever the front (mains) will be run by the seperate amp and surrounds will still be run by the reciever.
Pretty simple procedure, but make sure you use the PRE-OUTPUTS on the reciever and don't accidentially hook up the main in.
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul! -
Home Theatre wrote:How does the wattage work?
The reciever's amps are bypassed when using pre-outs. Go by the wattage specs from the seperate amp.Receiver: harmankardon AVR235
Mains: polk R30
Center: polk CSi3
Rear Surrounds: polk R20
Subwoofer: polk PSW404
DVD: Panasonic DVD-S29 -
What is the point of the separate amp? Cleaner sound, better sound. or more watts?Everything I own burned in the fire!!!!!!!!!!
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Home Theatre wrote:What is the point of the separate amp? Cleaner sound, better sound. or more watts?
All the above
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45697
the above is just 1 or many examples here on the forum differences seperate amplification can make.
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
