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How do you hook up a CD player?

By Mia Moss

How do you hook up a CD player?

So, if you’re hooking up a CD player, you’ll plug your audio cables into the “CD” input on your receiver. Plug in the audio cable into the CD player’s audio output (top picture) and then plug the other end into the stereo receiver’s CD audio input (bottom picture).

Can a CD be played on an analog AVR?

No, if you use the Toslink (or other digital connection),the CD player is merely grabbing the digital data off the disc and piping it to the AVR’s DAC, which then does the conversion to analog (also applying whatever DSP you may have enabled first — e.g. Dolby Pro Logic II).

Can a Blu ray player hook up to a CD player?

The CD player is hooked thru RCA’s to the avr and the Blu-ray has the HDMI to the tv ad optical out to the avr as well as coaxial from the Blu Ray to the avr. My question is this.

How to connect a DVD player to an analogue DAC?

4) Buy an S/PDIF to analogue DAC, like this Lindy and configure the DVD player’s digital audio output to PCM, not bitstream. Needless to say, the sky’s the limit in terms of how much you can pay for a DAC. Arcam: AV9, P1000, CD82.

How do you hook up a vintage turntable to a computer?

To use a vintage turntable with these newer units or to play through a computer, powered speakers or headphones, the turntable signal must pass through an external phono preamp. You’ll then plug the output from the phono preamp into line-level inputs on your gear (these may be marked Aux, Tape, Line, Video, CD, etc).

No, if you use the Toslink (or other digital connection),the CD player is merely grabbing the digital data off the disc and piping it to the AVR’s DAC, which then does the conversion to analog (also applying whatever DSP you may have enabled first — e.g. Dolby Pro Logic II).

The CD player is hooked thru RCA’s to the avr and the Blu-ray has the HDMI to the tv ad optical out to the avr as well as coaxial from the Blu Ray to the avr. My question is this.

To use a vintage turntable with these newer units or to play through a computer, powered speakers or headphones, the turntable signal must pass through an external phono preamp. You’ll then plug the output from the phono preamp into line-level inputs on your gear (these may be marked Aux, Tape, Line, Video, CD, etc).

What kind of audio sources can you hook up to a turntable?

Most audio sources you connect to a stereo (DVD/CD players, iPhones, Bluetooth receivers, etc.) are called “line level” sources — they have electronically amplified signals. Turntables are different — the output from the cartridge on a vintage turntable is MUCH lower.