I have an ONKYO micro receiver/CD player that I really like the sound of but it lacks power. Is it fairly easy to tap into this unit off the stereo volume control to drive a external power amp or would the quality suffer if I installed a resistor voltage divider circuit which just does about 10:1 voltage attenuation on the speaker outputs?
Something like this?
Speaker signal to line level
Something like this?
Speaker signal to line level
Look at Denon amps, they have just that, as you said, voltage divider at the speakers output, and they called that preamp out.
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Just check that your receiver is classic AB amplifier, not class D (because class D have LPF at output).
You can certainly do that, but you'd get a cleaner signal from the pre-amp section of the ONKYO.
Better to feed the Tape Out into an integrated amplifier when you can get control of volume, tone and balance.
Better to feed the Tape Out into an integrated amplifier when you can get control of volume, tone and balance.
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