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.
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. |
@erik_squires Nice catch. Ignore what I said. lol. |
Hey @erik_squires thanks a heap, I feel like I just got a Christmas present. I'd been pondering for days how to do this and as soon as I ask, there's the right answer! It's even got a connection for the sub! |
Heh, in fact I wrote a big blog piece on the Parasound: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/06/03/Parasound-Halo-P-6 |
