HiFi amp will this work ?

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Hi guys
i have a amp that had not been used for a while so i am thinking about trying it on my pc .the sound from the amp is very good but the speakers are to big for my needs so i might have to buy some book shelf speakers at at a later date .here is a picture of the back of it do you think it would work ok on my pc ? and what kind of lead would i need to connect this to my sound card .
Thanks guys

 
Jack > 2 X Phono

I can't imagine the quality will be that good as it appears to deal with video more than audio.
 
Thanks for that Tommy .but what do u mean by appears to deal with video more than audio. i know very little about home hifi . all i can say is that the sound from the amp sounds very good to me .
 
Probably means the amp is a "av amp" rather than a straight stereo integrated amplifiers.

AV amplifers are jack of all trades, so won't sound as good for the same price bracket. But it'll still have higher quality amp stages than ones in cheap PC speakers.

And if it's a Aiwa it'll be especially low quality. I recognize the "a"
 
yes its a Aiwa :D ok back to the drawing board . i was looking at a few amps today a Marantz PM4400 and a NAD C320BEE would something like that be better ?
 
out of them 2 amps which would be the better ? i think the NAD was about £40 more .at the moment i am running some Acoustic Energy Aego M 2.1 Speakers so the sound im after would need to be better again .
 
I would go for the NAD. However you've got the problem of crossovers (or lack of) you need to filter out bass from the signal, as the sats from the speakers won't handle full range. Possibility of damage, but it'll sound distorted too as they're attempting to output bass but can't.

You need a pair of speakers with own crossover, any standard Hi-Fi speaker will have crossovers.
 
Thanks squiffy . sorry mate i should have said i will be buying some new bookshelf speakers to go with the new amp .so would that give me better sound than the Aego M 2.1.
 
humax said:
yes its a Aiwa :D ok back to the drawing board . i was looking at a few amps today a Marantz PM4400 and a NAD C320BEE would something like that be better ?
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I bought the NAD C320BEE a few months ago and it is an absolutely stunning amplifier. The sound quality is mind blowingly good, especially when playing back lossless audio.
 
I decided to swap my Creative 7.1 PC speakers for my AV system last weekend (Seeing as now I've got a monitor worth watching DVDs on) and it made a hell of a difference.... mostly due to the fact that the creative's were pants and cut out at anything over a dull roar.

You'll need jack to phono cables as mentioned (3 if you want to run full set of channels)

Sound quality is fine on mine despite my amp also being AV (Would expect it for the price though!) and watching DVDs is SO much better.

You could use optical if your sound card has them, which is what I wanted to do using my Hercules digifire, but it acctually sounds worse than my X-Fi over phonos, which I think is down to sound card and not my cable
 
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not sure what to do now .i can get a NAD C320BEE for £139. but i am now thinking about going secondhand
 
Nothing wrong with buying second hand, if you know the amp has been looked after.

The NAD is a great 1st Hi-Fi amp, but you can buy better for the same price with second hand amplifiers.

Are you looking into 5.1 at some time? If so I would buy a amp with direct inputs into the poweramps (makes the amp act like a straight stereo poweramp) It's useful in a HT system, as you use av amplifier pre-outs into the NAD stereo amp but bypass the NAD pre-amp, as you have master volume elseware.
 
to be honest im not looking at 5.1 as i don't have a lot of room where i am .is it worth getting a amp that will work with digital . but there again im not sure that my sound card has that
 
"Digital" is a general term. That NAD amp doesn't have digital inputs, a DAC, or digital processing. You connect analogue outputs from your sources into the NAD.

You can add a DAC later if you want to upgrade your sources.

A av amplifier has digital inputs, but to be honest most of them aren't very good in sound quality in stereo, a stereo amplifier has better sound quality.

You need to go into seperate av pre-amps to get high end sound, and they cost a fair bit. I've got a Lexicon MC-1
 
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