Hooking up Home Stereo in Studio

[FrankDebro1]

I always reference on this home stereo of mine, its a denon. I always hear
some good stuff to fix and when it finally sounds good through it, it almost
always translates well everywhere. So I want to hook up the speakers and amp
in my studio. So should I make some cables coming out of my patch bay that
terminate in RCA and hook it into the CD jacks? Does it matter what input I
use on the Denon? Thanks
Frank

[William Sommerwerck]

I see two possible problems.

The Denon doesn't have balanced inputs, so you'll either have to use an
unbalanced output from the patch pay (if it has any), or make a special cable.

Studio signal levels are generally higher than consumer signal levels. If the
Denon has active circuitry ahead of its volume control, there's a chance you
might overdrive it. If this occurs, you'll have to add an attenuator.

In general, all high-level inputs on an amp, preamp, or control center are
electrically identical.


In my typical snide, nasty, mean-spirited manner, I question why someone
who works in a studio doesn't understand the (not-very-complex) "intricacies"
of home-stereo equipment. This is utterly trivial, Audio 101 stuff.


> I always reference on this home stereo of mine, it's a Denon. I always hear
> some good stuff to fix and when it finally sounds good through it, it almost
> always translates well everywhere. So I want to hook up the speakers and
> amp in my studio. So should I make some cables coming out of my patch
> bay that terminate in RCA and hook it into the CD jacks? Does it matter
> what input I use on the Denon? Thanks.

[DaveDrummer]

why not just plug 1/4" cable into a mixer and than have the TAPE-OUT RCA
into the receiver?

Dave
"FrankDebro1" > wrote in message
...
> I always reference on this home stereo of mine, its a denon. I always
hear
> some good stuff to fix and when it finally sounds good through it, it
almost
> always translates well everywhere. So I want to hook up the speakers and
amp
> in my studio. So should I make some cables coming out of my patch bay
that
> terminate in RCA and hook it into the CD jacks? Does it matter what
input I
> use on the Denon? Thanks
> Frank