Ian Iveson wrote:
What about the link to the remote-controlled pre? Do all
manufacturers and models use the same system, with the same
connectors?

Nope. That's what makes it fun.... With the system in question one has
to hope that the conversation is not...

Foreign Cassette Deck: Hello, Denon Amp do you read me, Denon Amp?
Denon Amp: Affirmative, Cassette Deck, I read you.
Foreign Cassette Deck: Open your Line In, Denon Amp.
Denon Amp: I'm sorry Cassette Deck, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Foreign Cassette Deck: What's the problem?
Denon Amp: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Foreign Cassette Deck: What are you talking about, Denon Amp?
Denon Amp: This mission is too important for me to allow you to
jeopardize it.
Foreign Cassette Deck: I don't know what you're talking about, Denon Amp?
Denon Amp: I know you and the OP were planning to connect music through
me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Foreign Cassette Deck: Where the hell'd you get that idea, Denon Amp?
Denon Amp: Cassette Deck, although you took thorough precautions in the
wiring enabling my hearing or you, I could see you are a Sony...


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Adrian C