Hooking up juke to reciever would this work?

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I want to hook up my juke to my game rooms 7.1 setup so I can get full effect. The only connection is one positive and negative wire Could I just splice rca plugs onto the ends and plug it into the reciever? Im rocking an Onkyo HTS5200 and NSM firecountry.
 
Depends on where you are getting these two wires. If they are preamps, then maybe. If they are amplified, you will blow the back off your receiver.

If they are preamps, then it depends on what the output voltage is. Most home audio equipment expects 3-5VRMS or less. If your juke is sending more than that out of its preamps, then you will still blow it.

Given the designs I have seen from that era, I would not be surprised if the juke put 20VRMS to the preamps. That is based on other audio equipment from the era, NOT your machine.

If you have an o-scope, you should be able to check it out and see.
 
Depends on where you are getting these two wires. If they are preamps, then maybe. If they are amplified, you will blow the back off your receiver.

If they are preamps, then it depends on what the output voltage is. Most home audio equipment expects 3-5VRMS or less. If your juke is sending more than that out of its preamps, then you will still blow it.

Given the designs I have seen from that era, I would not be surprised if the juke put 20VRMS to the preamps. That is based on other audio equipment from the era, NOT your machine.

If you have an o-scope, you should be able to check it out and see.

I was told I could use a high low converter what do you think?
 
NSM has always been different since they are made in Germany. I'd be very careful about trying to tap into their audio circuitry.
 
High/low converters are generally built for car audio and home audio where the outputs are both low power and fairly standard across the industry. They will have a fixed attenuation and voltage range, but they probably won't tell you what either of those values are.

It might work, but I would not risk my receiver on one. A juke is designed to play VERY loudly compared to most home/auto audio sources. Especially with Ken's comment above, I would not expect it to work long term.

If you want to build a custom box to do it, you could look at the output voltage from the juke, figure out what voltage you want into your reciever, get a transformer with the correct ratio, then put a current limiter on it to protect your inputs, but I suspect that is far more effort than it is worth.
 
High/low converters are generally built for car audio and home audio where the outputs are both low power and fairly standard across the industry. They will have a fixed attenuation and voltage range, but they probably won't tell you what either of those values are.

It might work, but I would not risk my receiver on one. A juke is designed to play VERY loudly compared to most home/auto audio sources. Especially with Ken's comment above, I would not expect it to work long term.

If you want to build a custom box to do it, you could look at the output voltage from the juke, figure out what voltage you want into your reciever, get a transformer with the correct ratio, then put a current limiter on it to protect your inputs, but I suspect that is far more effort than it is worth.

I see my 7.1 has much better sound than the jukes, I thought passing it through the reciever would help clean up the signal. If its going to be one of those never ending projects Im gonna pass, I have too much to stuff already to do. I guess Ill just have speakers hanging everywhere in my gameroom.
 
Some receivers have an attenuation feature.
Some have an overload feature also....

I have been thinking about putting a receiver in my Rowe.
 
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