"Mikkel Breiler" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:25:59 +0000, Geoff Lane

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 sockets are just that: signals at line-level meant to transfer
the signal
from the box they're on to another box that does something with the
signal.
You can power very small very efficient speakers with that signal, but the
level is
fixed and not meant for driving a speaker.

Why would you do that?

-Mikkel

Line out is a low level signal taken from the circuit before the main
amplifier; it is expected that the signal quality will be good and suitable
for plugging into Line In inputs on amplifiers, etc, to give good quality
signal. The other usual output is the headphone socket where the signal
quality is low. Only decent kit has Line In and Line Out sockets.