[Arny Krueger]

"Mr.T" MrT@home wrote in message


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Small mixers are good enough and cheap enough (under
$100) that they are a pretty good solution for many
audio applications. They are generally stereo and have
some RCA jack inputs and outputs. Some of the larger
ones even have USB or FW I/O so that they can be
concurrently used for recording and play back with a
PC.

Their standard output levels are compatible with most
power amps. either consumer or audio production.

All true, but still unnecessary if he just wants to plug
a CD player into the amplifier.

Only he knows whether he needs to do more than that
however.

I have one application at church where that's all we do,
plug the DVD player audio into the mic mixer and off to
the power amp. The single mic input with no phantom is
just a decoration on what amounts to be a $40 volume
control in a box.

And considering many power amps and most CD players have
volume controls already, even a $40 "volume control in a
box" may not be necessary.

Virtually every power amp I've ever seen has separate volume controls for
each channel, so operating them in tandem is inconvenient.

I know of no inexpensive CD or DVD players (under US$40) that have internal
volume controls.

If you think it is for your needs then fine, only the OP
can say what *he* needs.

That's why it was offered as an alternative, not a requirement.