Quote Originally Posted by tullymars
I just hooked up my carver amp,which I got off of ebay.I hooked it up to my receivers preouts,amp works,and sounds great,but I have hardly any output on the speaker levels on the receiver
As RL suggested, the PRE-OUT/MAIN-IN connections I've seen on receivers and integrated amps are a dedicated thing - you get the receiver amp OR the external amp, but not both. Unless of course, you use Y adapters to split the output to both the Carver AND back into the receiver's internal amplifier's MAIN-IN.

Make sense, RL?

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