I need A Preamp?

Question

I want an onkyo Onkyo M-282, just for music!


so im planning on buying a amp to get a cleaner sound for my Klipsch RB-51 speakers the onkyo M-282
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-EglOwnIueT4/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=10450&I=580M282


So people are saying i need a preamplifier
are you talking about this

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-EglOwnIueT4/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=52800&I=024EQ200

if you can suggest me a cheap pre-amp to use with this amplifier.

Answer 1

Vincent V is wrong. That is a Power Amplifier, not an integrated amplifier or a receiver. Receivers & integrated amps have a built in preamp. Power amps do not have a built in preamp.

You plug things like CD players, radio tuners & tape players into a preamplifier & the amplifier hooks up to the preamp.

The preamp is what controls the volume of the power amp. Most also have tone controls.

Vincent V was correct about your link, that is an equalizer, not a preamp.

There are surround sound receivers that also have line outputs for hooking power amps, but that would most likely be a more expensive route than your current budget would allow.

Onkyo P-3150V stereo preamp on eBay.

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Inputs for phono (very nice phono stage by the way) CD, 2 VCR / DVD players, and 2 tape sets.



Here is a complete system. Preamp, amp & turner. (A tuner is an AM/FM radio.) This system will give you audiophile quality sound without spending an audiophile size budget. (Audiophiles will spend over $1,000 just for cables.) Although eventually you'll want to upgrade your speakers to get the most out of this system, but you can wait & do that several years down the road.

Yamaha NS series C-4 PreAmp, M-60 amp, T-700 Tuner Set on eBay.

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On the face of the pre amp there is a phono input selector switch which allows you to adjust the cartridge load on phono 1 and 2. Phono 3 input is designated just for a moving coil cartridge. You can also connect 2 different amps thru the pre out connections on the back. With the 2 inputs for tape, you can have a reel to reel and a cassette deck! Connections on the back are for phono 1, 2 & 3, tuner, aux, tape 1 & 2, pre out 1 & 2 and voltage selector.

Power Amp

Superb sounding power amplifier features 160 watts per channel to 8 ohm speakers and 210 watts of dynamic power. This amp has the ability to be switched to pure Class A output for an extremely smooth and detailed sound.

Continuous Power per Channel
20 Hz – 20 kHz 0.003%, THD 8/6/4 Ohms, ……160/185/210 W

Answer 2

Some audio sources, that allow volume adjustment might be directly hooked to a power amp, you would at least have some sort of volume control, but I wouldn't reccomend that. Get a pre-amp. It offers more than simple volume control, and most surround decoding, tone adjustment and other features that you are used to seeing and using on a stereo rig, whatever. It will also allow you to connect multiple sources, such as a Blue ray players sound output, a radio tuner, your MP3 player, record player, tape deck source, headphones,so on. It is a quite important part of a sound system, so don't skimp here. Buy a good one, not a dirt cheap one.

Answer 3

you would only need a pre-amp for certain very specific purposes, like for instance connecting certain microphones or record players, possibly ... if you want to use it for listening to radio, tv, cd or dvd and such you don't need a pre-amp


that thing you linked to is not a pre-amp by the way but an equalizer... you don't really need one of those either unless you like (to play with) a lot of sliders in which case I would recommend another amp as the m-282 has very few buttons/sliders.

Answer 4

you can get a preamp from a store that sells tvs,speakers,turntable, amplifiers and so on. You will need to but whats call a preamp 4 turntables then you will need 2 connect it up then you would need to connect it to your main amplifier/stereo(with input on it) then you can hear it just like listening to a cd (not as good sound but louder and clearer)