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Preamp out to line in?

Moved house, and now my home theatre and audiophile system are in the same room. So I want to play the home theatre through the good speakers.

The home theatre has a decent Marantz receiver, NR1606, which has L/R preamp out RCA sockets. The audiophile system has a decent Parasound preamp, Halo P 6, with lots of unused inputs. Can I run the Marantz preamp out to the Parasound line in? In which case both volume controls would be active… any danger of damaging the Parasound input circuitry?

I guess the other alternative is to wire both the Marantz and power-amp directly to the speakers.  I use ordinary 12ga copper wire, so it'd be a bit thick and unwieldy. I guess I could splice the 12ga and use Y-shaped wires. Would 2 pairs of amplifier posts being in the circuit damage either the amps or the sound? Or, I could get/build a speaker-cable switch?

What I *really* need is an audiophile-grade receiver/preamp with just line outs…

Others must have faced this problem… searching didn't turn up anything that looks just like this.

timbray

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erik_squires
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You are most welcome, glad I could help.  Of course, I could only give you such an easy answer because you picked the right preamp. smiley

erik_squires
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The Halo P6 has dedicated inputs for a HT processor/receiver. Look on the back for "Home Theater Bypass Input"

The bypass mode disables the Halo’s volume control and keeps everything in place for the HT receiver/processor.  This is necessary to ensure the channel balance remains correct. 

The P7, a very nice preamp, had 7.1 channels of input for HT and would let you keep the preamp volume control.

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