chaining a 2-ch amp onto a 5.1 receiver
Well I've lived long enough in inadequate power. My Energy C7 towers are underwhelmed by the mediocore home-theatre output from my Yamaha rx-v1300. The salesman misled me a bit, and I've lived with it for 4 years now...
Anyways, I've heard that Parasound amps work very well with these c7s. I have found a few 2 channel/200Wpc amps on ebay, and they seem to have a good rep.
What I'd like to do is this:
-keep the Yammy for most duties - especially for the sattelites, center channel, extra room
-chain a Parasound high-current to run the C7 towers, receving stereo signal from the front-side-channels from the Yammy.
- Trouble is: I'm not sure what type of signal I should be using for feeding the towers. Will the Yamaha front-side channel speaker signal be OK, should I be looking for line-outs on these channels (not sure if I have them), or running them in parallel to the Yamaha (ie line-ins splitting to the two amps before entering the Yamaha.)
CLue me in guys?
It's a valid approach. You need preamp outputs on the receiver.
The external amp would replace the receivers internal amps. IOW, they will no longer be used.
I've done it, I do it, and it works well.
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Originally Posted by shockee
Well I've lived long enough in inadequate power. My Energy C7 towers are underwhelmed by the mediocore home-theatre output from my Yamaha rx-v1300. The salesman misled me a bit, and I've lived with it for 4 years now...
Anyways, I've heard that Parasound amps work very well with these c7s. I have found a few 2 channel/200Wpc amps on ebay, and they seem to have a good rep.
What I'd like to do is this:
-keep the Yammy for most duties - especially for the sattelites, center channel, extra room
-chain a Parasound high-current to run the C7 towers, receving stereo signal from the front-side-channels from the Yammy.
- Trouble is: I'm not sure what type of signal I should be using for feeding the towers. Will the Yamaha front-side channel speaker signal be OK, should I be looking for line-outs on these channels (not sure if I have them), or running them in parallel to the Yamaha (ie line-ins splitting to the two amps before entering the Yamaha.)
CLue me in guys?
With everthing OFF;
Using RCA jacks connect the Pre-Out L/R from the receiver into the power amp. Disconnect the front main speaker wires from the Receiver and hook them into the power amp. Turn on the power amp, do you hear a hum? If so you may need a cheater adapter to beat a ground fault. If there's no hum then make sure the receiver is turned down, and turn on the receiver.
Not all amps have the same gain.You should check to see if the volume needs to be adjusted by using a test disk. If you don't have one you might be able to get by with the THX tests that are included on some DVD's. Using the white noise test see if the main speakers are louder or softer. In your receivers setup procedure there should be a way to adjust the volume levels for each speaker.