Hello. I recently found an old Pioneer VSX-9900s receiver lying around in the garage. It's about 16-18 years old and I want to use it with my audio set up. It only does stereo sound but has preouts in the back for center, sub, front, left and surround speakers. However, accompanying each preout is a "power in" RCA plug. I'm wondering what the power-in rca plugs are for.
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Old Pioneer receiver
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Those power in and pre outs should have jumpers on them.
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You use the pre-outs by connecting them to a separate power amplifier, using RCA cables. Or you can use the built in amp by connecting the jumpers to the power-ins. I suspect that you don't want to use a separate amp so just leave the jumpers in.
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If you are using powered speakers, why use the receiver at all? do you plan on having more than the PC hooked up to the speakers?
if you want the receiver, connect the pre-outs to the pre-ins on the powered speakers (if thats even available, I doubt it is), but like Zepher said, don't bother with that, unless you want to use the receiver for input switching or something
also, you can use RCA cables in place of jumpers (if you've lost the original jumpers and have extra cables)
also, you can use RCA cables in place of jumpers (if you've lost the original jumpers and have extra cables)
then yeah, assuming the swans have a pre-in and you can bypass their volume control, you can use the receiver in this capacity and use the swans' amplifier