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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
rich3549
73 posts
 
Slappy is correct. If your receiver has pre-outs, go ahead and connect your Carver to the pre-outs and your speakers to the Carver. The sound is bound to be better than coming from your receiver.

sogood51
2,157 posts
 
Hi Foxtrot, Slappy and Rich are right, you must have pre outs for each channel to do away with all the internal amps in your receiver. If you only have front L/R pre outs, then you will only use those channels for your sound upgrade. Let us know what you have. If your receiver has pre outs for all channels then your options are larger.
foxtrot OP
211 posts
 
Thanks for all the replies.

The receiver does have one set of pre outs, they must be for the front speakers.
I do have a Jeff Rowland preamp, I use my system mainly for 2 channel music, but nevertheless thought that using the Carver would surely improve the sound.

I will give it a try and let you guys know, thanks again.

Regards,
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