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Franke · 01-07-2014

Schrade, you don't want to feed the speaker output directly into the 2nd amp input. There is an impedance mismatch as well as too much voltage (power) from amp 1. You will get distortion and possibly damage the amps. The input to most home amps are looking for a very low level signal (millivolts) - not high power as what comes from the speaker terminals. You would have to get an amp with speaker level inputs for amp 2 as what is sometimes done in car audio. I don't know of any adapters for this home application.

01-07-2014	#2
Franke Join Date: May 2013 Location: Beaver, PA Posts: 515	Re: Anyone savy on home stereo? Schrade, you don't want to feed the speaker output directly into the 2nd amp input. There is an impedance mismatch as well as too much voltage (power) from amp 1. You will get distortion and possibly damage the amps. The input to most home amps are looking for a very low level signal (millivolts) - not high power as what comes from the speaker terminals. You would have to get an amp with speaker level inputs for amp 2 as what is sometimes done in car audio. I don't know of any adapters for this home application. Last edited by Franke; 01-07-2014 at 10:33 PM.