Integrated amp and power amp combo-which do i connect the speakers to?
This is an easy question but i do not know the answer. If i have an integrated amp and a power amp how do i connect them together and which amp do i connect my speakers to?! I have figured bi-amping out but don't rate it, how else can i do it?
thanks
Use the Intergrated as a Pre-amp, by connecting the Intergrated's Pre-outs to the power amps inputs and connect speakers to the power amp.
thanks. is there another way of connecting them so the integrated amp is not used as a pre amp?
I think i understand thanks. You both just told me the way to connect them without biamping right? I'll give it a go. Thanks for your help.
Hi Jane, the way we both said is for a pre and power connection. This is not biamping.
If you need anymore help, just ask the forum users.
Phil
Yep, i understand thanks. I will try it like you said now, thanks. Very helpful info.
I have tried all combinations of connecting the integrated and power amps and speakers and have come to the conclusion that a power amp is just a box that that does nothing much. If anything, it all sounds worse with the power amp connected. Why?
What amps and speakers are you using ?
primare I30 and A30.2, b+w 684 speakers....
It should sound much better using a pre and power amp, are you sure your connecting them up correctly?
If your going to biwire them, have you taken the linkis out, or if single wiring the speakers, have you got the links in place?
it definately does not sound much better. I am not absolutely sure i am connecting them right. First i biamped by using interconnects from the integrated amp pre amp out to the power amp inputs. cd player is connected to integrated amp. one red connector on speaker cable on power amp to red connector on one speaker LF red connector. Another run of cable from power amp black connector to black connector on same speaker in LF input. From the other speaker 2 more runs of cable. Red connections on HF speaker input to red connections on the integrated amp, black connections on speaker to black HF connections on integrated amp. That's biamped right?
then i tried,
connecting integrated pre amp out to power am pre amp in. And only used 1 set of speaker cables and not two, and i put the links on the back of the speakersto connect the inputs together, and then connected the speakers to the power amp speaker connections.
then i tried
disconnecting the power amp and just using the integrated amp on its own with one set of speaker cable to each speaker with the likns in.
i would say that if i was blind folded i wouldn't know the difference between them all. if i imagine hard to notice a difference i would say the integrated and power amp combo when not biwired is the worst. Then biamping or just using the integrated amp on its own is debatable which is better.
Did i connect them all up properly or can you not tell from the confusing way i wrote it down?
I was expecting it to sound better with the power amp somehow.
i wrote that down all wrong. For biamping i used the power left speaker outputs to connect the left speaker LF input. Then the right output on the power amp to the LF input on the right speaker.
the integrated amp did the HF inputs on right and left speakers. That's more like it.
If yo want to use the integrated as a pre amp, then connect the integrated and power together via the pre out on the rear of the integrated, and to the pre in on the power amp. Use a good interconnect between the 2 units.
Connect the speakers to the power amp, and away you go.
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