Pre Out Question Please

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Please can anyone tell me if by using the the pre outs on an AV Receiver you can then plug in a decent sounding stereo amp and use it for playing music? I keep holding back on buying an AV Receiver as the ones in my price range £400, seem to get bad reviews for their music playing ability. If I understand right, I can just run the front speakers through the pre out amplifier when I want to play music, and this will hopefully solve my AV dilema. I understand the new SONY STR-DA2400ES has pre outs, so I will wait and see if this model matches up to the Onkyo 606 before making the plunge. It looks like the SONY STR-DA2400ES may not have a zone 2 speaker connection though, which I would have liked, or can you use the pre out for this purpose also? Thanks in advance for any help Peter

 

[Lost Angeles]

The 606 has no pre-outs

 

[fr0g]

However, the answer is yes. If you want to do stereo through a stereo amp, and AV on the same set of speakers, make sure you buy an AV amp with preouts...Denon, Sony, Marantz...etc or a more expensive Onkyo

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the replies. sounds like the pre out is ideal for my situation.

I did notice the 606 had no pre outs, that's why I wanted to wait and see how the new Sony STR-DA2400ES matches up to it in terms of performance.

Thanks