Can I hook up an amplifier to it? My new home has speakers installed in each room and all the wires run to a Niles SPS-6 amplifier. How do I hook it up to my receiver sony strdh750?
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According to its description on Crutchfield, the Niles is actually a speaker selector box and not really an amplifier. The Sony is a 7.2 surround sound receiver AND amplifier. But there is an option to send power to stereo speakers in one other room. If you connect that to your Niles, you can continue to select speakers in multiple rooms. Keep in mind that the Sony will drop down to a 5.1 surround system if you decide to use that option to power speakers elsewhere. If you keep your Sony to the full 7.2 surround sound, it will send plenty of power to seven surround speakers in one room for a home theater. However, like nearly all 5.1 and up to 7.2 receivers, it does NOT power a subwoofer. It only provides a signal out via standard RCA plug to a separate amplifier for the subwoofer. So if you don't already have an amplifier for that, you will need to get one.
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Dear Jeff,Thanks for your inquiry. To do what you're looking to do, you would need to go to the next model up in the Sony line, the STRDN1050. The STRDH750 does not have a line out for an external amplifier. Please let me know if I can be of additional assistance.Regards,Eric CohenWorld Wide Stereo
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the RCA connections are only for input to the amplifier it has four speaker wires coming out. if this doesn't answer your question please provide a little more detail on what your trying to do and I will try to help.s the first thing I would recommend is not buying this amplifier.
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You can buy the speaker line to RCA adapter to feed your speaker lines into the amp. I used an Audiocontrol LC6i in my setup but not necessary unless you want to add subwoofer and amps.
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How do you bi-amp a speaker from one source? Can you give an example of a receiver with this feature? Does one need to buy an extra amp?
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No speaker connection. Red & White RCA output for Amp. Idiotic 75 ohm connector is potted on outside & recessed into housing so you can't connect your coax from the roof antenna to it. I took the connector (from the defunct Sony it replaced) and soldered it in so I could use this to get FM. The reception is inferior to the Sony it replaced.
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You would have to cut off the two little speaker plugs, strip each of the four wires back half and inch, separately twist the strands for each wire, and plug those wires into the amplifier's speaker connections. There is a picture on the Amazon ad for this amp that shows the back and what the speaker connections look like. This is not complicated but you have to end up with the wires from one speaker going into the amplifier's left two speaker connectors (+, -) and the other speaker wire going into the two right speaker connections (+,- do not matter much in small systems, but if the speaker wires are color-coded then you may as well match with the "+" and "-".).
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Hi Jen,No, it needs to be connected to a receiver/amplifier. Thanks. >Joffrey
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these speakers need a power sorce - receiver, amp or similar. Example : Yamaha RX-V377 5.1-Channel A/V Home Theater Receiver You want : http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_12?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords;=ipod%20speakers&sprefix;=ipod+speaker%2Caps%2C195
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You will need a receiver/ amp setup for this to work. (Ex. i have mine hooked up to a Pioneer VSX-822-K 5.1-system and it sounds great.) Other than that, all wiring and accessories are included, or at least enough to get started. The sub has a built in amp so make sure there is an available outlet. It would be recommended that you buy higher quality wire and a way to mount the center channel and the surround speakers if they are not being placed on shelves.
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YOu can hook it up several ways. 1) Pass your amp's speaker outputs through. 2) Subwoofer connection from your amplifier. 3) Through a pre-out from you amp.#2 is the recommended way. Since it has it's own, built-in amp, it really makes little difference about what kind of receiver/amplifier you have, especially if it has a sub-woofer output, which all news amps will. This thing is POWERFUL. I cannot turn it up all the way in my gameroom (20 ft by 15ft) without hurting my ears. It will fill a gymnasium. A 4-car garage, no problem. A helicopter in the movie and you will beleive it's flying right over your house. Ask anymore questions you like. John O. YOu can hook it up several ways. 1) Pass your amp's speaker outputs through. 2) Subwoofer connection from your amplifier. 3) Through a pre-out from you amp.#2 is the recommended way. Since it has it's own, built-in amp, it really makes little difference about what kind of receiver/amplifier you have, especially if it has a sub-woofer output, which all news amps will. This thing is POWERFUL. I cannot turn it up all the way in my gameroom (20 ft by 15ft) without hurting my ears. It will fill a gymnasium. A 4-car garage, no problem. A helicopter in the movie and you will beleive it's... » Read More YOu can hook it up several ways. 1) Pass your amp's speaker outputs through. 2) Subwoofer connection from your amplifier. 3) Through a pre-out from you amp.#2 is the recommended way. Since it has it's own, built-in amp, it really makes little difference about what kind of receiver/amplifier you have, especially if it has a sub-woofer output, which all news amps will. This thing is POWERFUL. I cannot turn it up all the way in my gameroom (20 ft by 15ft) without hurting my ears. It will fill a gymnasium. A 4-car garage, no problem. A helicopter in the movie and you will beleive it's flying right over your house. Ask anymore questions you like. John O. « Show Less
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Just researching systems myself. But at the most all you should need to hook this up is a audio RCA cable. It should come with a RCA cable though. It also should come with speaker wires. And that's really it should take to hook it up.
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I had the same problem. Sony STRDE985 home theater receiver. Wanted to hook up my wireless speakers to use as the rear surrounds, but I only have speaker terminals, not direct outputs. So, I found an adapter at www.connectworld.net that you use with the RCA adapter that came with the speakers. The adapter from connectworld has a female RCA plug on one end, and two speaker wires on the other end. You will need two of these units. They cost 4 bucks a piece, plus shipping. I just ordered them, so I haven't received them yet to know if that is the solution to my problem. Hard to imagine that it WOULDN'T be, though. I had the same problem. Sony STRDE985 home theater receiver. Wanted to hook up my wireless speakers to use as the rear surrounds, but I only have speaker terminals, not direct outputs. So, I found an adapter at www.connectworld.net that you use with the RCA adapter that came with the speakers. The adapter from connectworld has a female RCA plug on one end, and two speaker wires on the other end. You will need two of these units. They cost 4 bucks a piece, plus shipping. I just ordered them, so I haven't received them yet to know if that is the solution to my problem. Hard to imagine that it... » Read More I had the same problem. Sony STRDE985 home theater receiver. Wanted to hook up my wireless speakers to use as the rear surrounds, but I only have speaker terminals, not direct outputs. So, I found an adapter at www.connectworld.net that you use with the RCA adapter that came with the speakers. The adapter from connectworld has a female RCA plug on one end, and two speaker wires on the other end. You will need two of these units. They cost 4 bucks a piece, plus shipping. I just ordered them, so I haven't received them yet to know if that is the solution to my problem. Hard to imagine that it WOULDN'T be, though. « Show Less
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You would need to have a receiver or amplifier to use this unit. Speakers would depend on what amp or receiver you use.
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Just use speaker cable to hook up to receiver/amplifier. Speakers draw power from amplifier so no power cable needed.
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I also need help with this. My new home is wired for speakers but has standard speaker wire. Anyway to get the plugs for this system to add on?
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What you want to have is an amp that you hook this up to. The amp would then connect to your speakers. Think of this as simply a tuner. Grace has other models that may hook up to speakers.
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As far as I can tell your Denon does not have multi-channel pre-amp outputs. So there is no way to connect an outboard amplifier to your receiver.