Using my Power Amp + my receiver


I have a Carver AV405 multichannel power amp and also a Sony STR DE-985 receiver.

I was thinking that I could maybe use the power amp to drive the fronts, surrounds and center and use the receiver only to do the decoding.

Is it a good idea...how can I do this ???

Any help would be much appreciated.

Brgds.
foxtrot

Showing 1 response by slappy

If you have Pre-outs on your reciever then you can run RCA connects from the Recievers pre-outs to the Carver.

If you dont have pre-outs, then, uhh.. then i guess you could alwaus get some boxes that turn high level input into standard rca connections, but this will degrade your sound.

if you have pre-outs then yeah it can be a good idea. im sure the carver has better amplifiers than the reciever does.
My last reciever had bridging clips in the pre-outs, and once you removed them it killed the internal amplifiers so the reciever still diddnt cook. That was nice. I dont think many recievers do that anymore. your sony might still get nice and toasty even though its amplifiers are not connected to anything...

i think. i could be completly wrong.

if you can do it, do it.

it would be even better yet if you could sport the money for a pre-amp and then you could use the reciever for a secondary system elsewhere