"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Geoff Lane" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:39:40 -0000, "Keith G"

wrote:

I've misplaced the manual to an AIWA NSX-5777 music centre.

What is the purpose of the Line Out sockets, is Line Out an
unamplified signal as opposed to the various speaker outputs
which I
assume are amplified.



Line Out is a signal at line level which is *unaffected* by the
amplifier's
Tone, Volume, Balance &c. controls and is used to feed a 'Slave
Amplifier'
or active subwoofer as in page 6 of this .pdf manual for the
currently
available Acoustic Solutions SP101 amplifier:

So the line out could actually go to some battery operated
computer
type speakers.



Only if they have some sort of amplification...??



There's a couple of other sockets I'm not too sure about;

below is a link to an image of the sockets,
http://www.3lanes.dsl.pipex.com/temp/phono.jpg

What are the MD sockets for.


That's a little bit confusing as I would guess the Video/Aux and MD
(line
level) to be inputs.

If the Line Out sockets do not provide a line level signal to
another
amplifier/recorder/whatever then they are possibly an input for
another
gadget's Line Out sockets, IYSWIM - poor labelling or poor grouping,
I would
say, but you are unlikely to do any great harm if you have a bit of
a poke
about with another source....??

Volume control set very low, of course....







Line out is to feed to another appliance - in this case since it has
an input for Mini-Disc then it is safe to assume that the output is
intended to permit recording of whatever source is selected on the
music centre.


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Woody

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