Hooking everything up for the first time

>using the pre-amp in the receiver to feed the power amp?
Yes.

I'm guessing 'regular IC' is an input connector? I don't have any or know what they are, I didn't think of that when I bought the stuff. Can I not use big fat speaker cable?

If I'm not using Line Outs, the only way left is to connect each speaker OUT on the receiver to the corresponding speaker IN on the amp via the screw down posts. The ones that have a hole in the post.

If that's true(?) I'd have to cut one end off the standard RCA jacks, bare the wire and stick the bare end through the posts on the receiver? Then plug the RCA ends into the amp?

Thanks to all for your help! rev

This is such miserable news! I've waited months to have this stuff shipped down to Mexico via friends because other shipping methods aren't reliable.

It's going to be months to ship it back again and get the right thing. Maybe Amazon will still take it back...

Jlind325is Paraneer Lindstad - despite the grim news, you guys saved me from making a(nother) dumb move here - thanks a lot!
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The first thing I couldn't understand when researching this was why no one seems to make a reasonably priced pre-amp ONLY. Manufacturers would be saving by not including amplification and customers could then afford to step to decent sound.

People on this forum said, 'Get any receiver and forget about the amplification included' but I guess they forgot to mention what a novice might not know.

Does anyone have a suggestion for the right thing to get, does anyone want this Onkyo - you know I haven't plugged it in!