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Need a little help

Hello everyone. Somewhat new to this hobby and need a little advice. My current setup is a 2.1 channel setup consisting of a Pioneer sclx-904 av receiver that I'm using as a preamp, 2 identical Anthem power amps that are feeding a pair of B&W bookshelf speakers (they are biamped). My question is this; I recently acquired an Nad preamp. Can this NAD be integrated into my existing system somehow?  What would I be gaining? I read that an external preamp can be hooked up to an av receiver, how would I do that?? Also the NAD only has one set of preout's, and does not have a dedicated sub out, I still want to use both Anthem amps and my Klipsch subwoofer, but how do I achieve this with only one set of preouts( left/ right) on the NAD?? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!

spoonman16510
spoonman16510 OP
13 posts
 

It's not that I'm dead set on keeping the receiver in play; I'm more concerned with my question about the NAD and only having a L/ R preout and keeping both amps and the subwoofer in play...

wbs
82 posts
 

The splitter suggested above will split  your single L/R output three ways.  You only need two, one for your Anthems and one for your sub.

Bill

wbs
82 posts
 

What I mean is, the splitter will work just fine.

Bill

soix
9,791 posts
 

I'm more concerned with my question about the NAD and only having a L/ R preout and keeping both amps and the subwoofer in play...

So the splitter will allow you to use the single pair of RCA outs from the NAD as three separate outputs you can use to connect your two amps and subwoofer, so it’s like the NAD now has three pairs of RCA outputs that’ll feed all your components. 

dlevi67
54 posts
 

Let me try to recap (!), saying some things that so far have perhaps been taken too much for granted:

1. The NAD is a much better piece of equipment than the Pioneer. Unless you need/want the tuner section of the Pioneer as a source or as a part of your AV system, there is no point in keeping it in the system, especially not as a preamp.

2. You need three sets of line-level ("pre-out") outputs to feed your twin amps and sub. A 1 --> 3 way splitter will do that without major issues.

3. Cable the splitter into your single pre-out from the NAD, connect one splitter output to one of the Anthems, another to the other Anthem and the third to the subwoofer and you are done.

4. Sell/donate/store/burn the Pioneer, unless you need a radio.

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