I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...

dAlmAtiAn™

PS. My PC has an on-board sound-card that screams and squeals and
bubbles with static noise from the computer when playing quiet audio or
no audio. The noise is very reminiscent to that of an old Spectrum48K
loading. No slots for extra sound-card. Any ideas?

wrote:
I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...

dAlmAtiAn™

Here's what I would do:-

1) Get some standard stereo phono-phono cables from your favourite
supplier. I reckon on 4 stereo pairs.

2) Connect the tuner output to the tuner inputs on the amplifier
3) Connect the CD Player output to the CD player input on the amplifier.
4) Connect the cassette recorder's play output to the recorder input on
the amplifier
5) Connect the cassette recorder's record input to the recorder output
on the amplifier
6) Put the equaliser on Ebay, as it won't do anything for you. Use the
money to pay for the cables.
7) You haven't mentioned 'speakers, so you will need a pair of
loudspeakers which you connect to the 'speaker outputs of the amplifier
using common or garden 13 amp mains cable (2 core) or anything else of
similar thickness.
8) You will need an aerial (antenna) for the tuner. Depending on where
you live, a simple dipole may work. This can be made from 2 core mains
cable. Split the conductor 75cm (2'6") from one end, and separate the
two cores such that the ends are 150 cm (5') apart. Connect the other
end to the antenna input on the tuner. It won't work very well, but well
enough for you to test if the tuner's working. If you live near a
transmitter, it may even work well enough for normal use.



PS. My PC has an on-board sound-card that screams and squeals and
bubbles with static noise from the computer when playing quiet audio or
no audio. The noise is very reminiscent to that of an old Spectrum48K
loading. No slots for extra sound-card. Any ideas?

I don't find this at all surprising, as I too have heard odd noises from
the on-board sound cards. Assuming your PC has a USB socket, use an
external USB sound card. There are several available at sensible prices.
You should be able to get one with digital and analogue In/Out.


S.

On 17 Aug 2006 03:39:19 -0700, wrote:

I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...

As you're not completely technically incompetent (you can solder we
assume this equipment doesn't have standard, labeled phono sockets on
the back? Or you wouldn't be asking.

So what DOES it have?

Laurence Payne wrote:
On 17 Aug 2006 03:39:19 -0700, wrote:

I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...

As you're not completely technically incompetent (you can solder we
assume this equipment doesn't have standard, labeled phono sockets on
the back? Or you wouldn't be asking.

So what DOES it have?

LOL. yr right. I'm not that incompetent.. BUT.. have never had
separates before.
I would like to know this..
The front panel and the rear panel of the amp has Aux,Tape,CD,Tuner and
Phone inputs and select buttons. That i found elementary.. cd player
plugs into CD.. press CD and away we go. Same for tape etc.. that is
OK. Here's whats got me stuck. The EQUALISER.. How?

The front of the amp had a DAT button, but no DAT inputs anywhere.
Press DAT, a pretty green light saying DAT appears, and amp acts like
it's in standby. No sound. So, I leave that off (I presume DAT is
something to do with old DAT tapes). Also on front of amp is an EQRec
button. Press it and it doesn't do anything different to the sound.

The Equaliser has input, and Output. Ive tried a number of ways to
connect it.. but it only seems to work between one device and the amp
- depending which device it is connected through. IE CDplayer into EQ
into Amp. Now only CD has EQ working.
I'm confused.

Later today I will upload photos of front and rear panels to one of my
AOL or Yahoo accounts for download. I will post here when I have done
that (got to borrow camera).

Hope this helps... but I require the EQ to kill the bass as my speaker
are a bit OTT but I'm not considering replacing.

Thank you for your feedback Laurence.

Serge Auckland wrote:
wrote:
I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...

dAlmAtiAn™

Here's what I would do:-

1) Get some standard stereo phono-phono cables from your favourite
supplier. I reckon on 4 stereo pairs.

2) Connect the tuner output to the tuner inputs on the amplifier
3) Connect the CD Player output to the CD player input on the amplifier.
4) Connect the cassette recorder's play output to the recorder input on
the amplifier
5) Connect the cassette recorder's record input to the recorder output
on the amplifier
6) Put the equaliser on Ebay, as it won't do anything for you. Use the
money to pay for the cables.
7) You haven't mentioned 'speakers, so you will need a pair of
loudspeakers which you connect to the 'speaker outputs of the amplifier
using common or garden 13 amp mains cable (2 core) or anything else of
similar thickness.
8) You will need an aerial (antenna) for the tuner. Depending on where
you live, a simple dipole may work. This can be made from 2 core mains
cable. Split the conductor 75cm (2'6") from one end, and separate the
two cores such that the ends are 150 cm (5') apart. Connect the other
end to the antenna input on the tuner. It won't work very well, but well
enough for you to test if the tuner's working. If you live near a
transmitter, it may even work well enough for normal use.



PS. My PC has an on-board sound-card that screams and squeals and
bubbles with static noise from the computer when playing quiet audio or
no audio. The noise is very reminiscent to that of an old Spectrum48K
loading. No slots for extra sound-card. Any ideas?

I don't find this at all surprising, as I too have heard odd noises from
the on-board sound cards. Assuming your PC has a USB socket, use an
external USB sound card. There are several available at sensible prices.
You should be able to get one with digital and analogue In/Out.


S.

Regarding Speakers.. they are a pair of 2ftx3ft each with 1x12" cone,
1x16" cone and a 5" tweeter with each speakers box rating at 4Ohm
2.1kw. The Amp is only rated at 4-8Ohm 400W per Ch (I think) but I
know that is OK and does not put excessive strain on my amplifier at
the volume I use (approx 50w [1/4 Vol] per channel).

I need the EQ to kill some of the bass as my neighbours (40ft away) are
constantly moaning at me because bass is all they can hear. The Bass
Control on the Amp is very minimal.

re. Sound-card.. Thanks. Never knew they existed for USB. This
morning I found A USB card on eBay for 19GBP.

Thanks for your feedback Serge

dAlmAtiAn™ wrote:
Laurence Payne wrote:
On 17 Aug 2006 03:39:19 -0700, wrote:

I have a Sony separate stereo setup. I'm not an expert in setting it
up, and would like any comments that could be offered. I acquired it
from a junk skip where someone had dumped it purely because one of the
sound channels was down, but upon inspection it turned out to be a
broken track where the headphone socket fixes to the board. With a
little care and a lot of soldering experience, I managed to get it
working perfectly... except for one thing......:-

I don't know how to connect the dam things properly.

I have failed to obtain a manual for general setup, and have only
managed to find a manual for the radio receiver (analogue) which
doesn't tell me how to set it all up together. and no-one I know has
the faintest idea how to set it up either..

Any helpful advise offered will be treated with utmost gratification.
Here's what equipment I have.;

TC-V715T Stereo Cassette Deck
SEQ-V7700 7band Graphic Equalizer
ST-V715L FM stereo FM/AM Tuner
CDP-M75 Compact Disc Player
TA-V715T Stereo Digital Reference/Integrated Stereo Premain Amplifier

More info/photos can be made available on request.

Thank you for reading this...
As you're not completely technically incompetent (you can solder we
assume this equipment doesn't have standard, labeled phono sockets on
the back? Or you wouldn't be asking.

So what DOES it have?

LOL. yr right. I'm not that incompetent.. BUT.. have never had
separates before.
I would like to know this..
The front panel and the rear panel of the amp has Aux,Tape,CD,Tuner and
Phone inputs and select buttons. That i found elementary.. cd player
plugs into CD.. press CD and away we go. Same for tape etc.. that is
OK. Here's whats got me stuck. The EQUALISER.. How?

The equaliser can be plugged into the pre-amp-output and main-input, if
you have such things. Otherwise, the best way is to plug it up as if it
were a tape recorder, in the tape loop. Then, when you want to listen
through the equaliser, you push the tape monitor button. Problem comes
if you only have one tape loop, then you have to choose whether you
connect the tape recorder or the equaliser. Some EQs have tape in/out
sockets on the equaliser itself to which you connect the tape recorder.


The front of the amp had a DAT button, but no DAT inputs anywhere.
Press DAT, a pretty green light saying DAT appears, and amp acts like
it's in standby. No sound. So, I leave that off (I presume DAT is
something to do with old DAT tapes). Also on front of amp is an EQRec
button. Press it and it doesn't do anything different to the sound.

My guess is that this puts the tone controls in the tape output so
allowing you to EQ the recording.


The Equaliser has input, and Output. Ive tried a number of ways to
connect it.. but it only seems to work between one device and the amp
- depending which device it is connected through. IE CDplayer into EQ
into Amp. Now only CD has EQ working.
I'm confused.

Please see above regarding where to put the EQ.

Later today I will upload photos of front and rear panels to one of my
AOL or Yahoo accounts for download. I will post here when I have done
that (got to borrow camera).

It would be useful to see what ins and outs you actually have; all the
photos on Ebay of this amp are too poor to see anything useful.

S.