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Through unfortunate circumstances........

Many years ago as a young sprite, I knew a gentleman in the Air Force who was engaged to mother that was in the Army. He was born in Germany as his father was in the Air Force as well so it was fitting that he ended up back in Germany during his enlistment. While there he was able to assemble a wonderful array of electronics and brought them back to the states at the end of his deployment. He had a Pioneer system that only 2 people could touch... him & I. Talk about loud in proud!! I always said that when I turned on Rush, not only did I enjoy it but so did the rest of the block lol


Fast forward to 2020 and now I own the Pioneer Spec1 & 2 pre/amp and I will enjoy putting a system together starting with these & will enjoy a little of my youth as both he & my mother have gone home. So there in lies the question. With the 1976 technology was, can I put a modern A/V receiver on this without getting a separate DAC? As I said, there's no system yet but I do have the beginning pieces. The A/V receiver I have currently is the Yamaha HTR-5660 that has speaker outputs that I could cable into the tuner jacks of the preamp. Considering digital wasn't a thing in '76 and I may already know the answer, I thought I'd ask anyway.


I have a Pioneer CD (PD-F906) player & equalizer (SG-9800) so I know these will be a part of the system, but need to make sure the CD is compatible. I know it's not the greatest thing but it is my thing nonetheless. Thank you gentlemen



vista1868
gdnrbob
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You only need a DAC if you want to stream music/play music from a digital source(computer/NAS) or play music from a CD transport (a CD player has the DAC built in).
It also depends upon how 'high-end' you want to go, as separate DAC's will provide higher quality of sound -though at a higher cost level.
Bob
vista1868 OP
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I appreciate the response Bob, I assumed as much. I'm still interested in the DAC & better A/V amp in the future 
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millercarbon
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Almost always an AVR is so crappy you would be better off just tossing it and using the Pioneers. But they are so old its possible they are not much better than the AVR. Only way to tell is to listen and compare. Keep in mind the quality of the interconnect used between them will have a major impact on this comparison.

Whatever you do, do NOT try this:
The A/V receiver I have currently is the Yamaha HTR-5660 that has speaker outputs that I could cable into the tuner jacks of the preamp.

Speaker level out put is so much higher voltage than line level that unless your volume is turned down to near nothing you risk frying your pre-amp. Which would truly be a shame as you would then be using your worst sounding component to ruin the one that (probably) is the best.
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