The back panel is where the action is! This is where you interface your components with the amp. Note that this amp takes audio channel from video sources! 

Each component connects the amp with a two channel RCA cable. Left and right channels are red and white.

This is where the speakers attach. The front speakers you can consider the "main speakers". I have a pair of Base series 3 attached.

The "Center" speaker is where the sub-woofer attaches.

There is another bank for a second pair of speakers that's not in this photo.

Please note the bank of s-video cables. This amp has the ability to switch video signals. S-video is an older video standard and it's completely optional whether you hook it up or not.

Well- that's all I'm going to say about amps. Tune in next time for CD-players!

I may learn something here James.  I don't even know how to hook up a dvd or anything else to my tvs. lol  someone else always has to do it.

I hated the day I gave up my old Marantz amplifier/tuner.  It was a great piece of equipment.  But, alas, it was obsolete.  It didn't have a single digital bone in it's body...not a single digital input.  The new set top boxes (cable/satellite) and Blu-Ray DVD players all had optical digital outputs that needed a corresponding input for sound.

So, I now have a Onkyo TX-SR501 AV Receiver.  It's not nearly the machine the Marantz was and didn't cost nearly as much, but it's a great piece of equipment.

They are hard to find now...have been replaced by newer, probably better, models, but they are great!  Used ones are about $50 at Amazon.

I prefer the sound quality of old equipment. Most lower-end systems now go for the "thump." That takes raw power, but it's usually attained through higher THD (total harmonic distortion).

Mid-end standard back in the day was <.01% THD; now it's quite common to see <.1% THD, although the raw power has jumped.

Something I find really funny is the power spec used in manuals. When I was a kid, it was reported in watts RMS per channel, all channels driven, but now I only see total power. A Marantz 2230 stereo receiver back then would be billed as 30 watts RMS per channel, all channels driven. Today, they'd call the same power output 120 watts total power.

I guess a bigger number is more impressive. (shrug)

Mike- very nice. It's much newer than my Mitsubishi. I like the layout and capabilities that it has.

Russ- I think one of the reasons they have stopped rating watts per channel and using the total watts number is that so few people know the difference anymore. Back in the day I knew people that had the chops to to do custom rebuilds on their amps and replace the tubes and transformers. Sadly, that kind of know how just isn't out there anymore.

true analog amps have tubes and transistors. There is a snobbish minority that insists that the true analog sound off vinyl is the only way to go. There's a lot to be said for that.

 

that was a retarded statement and you know it lol

Well yeah... it's all good if you can afford it.