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Is it possible to rig a professional audio mixer to a home theater system?
As stated above, I'm wondering if its possible.
I have an old 5.1 channel dvd player, and have multiple speakers hooked up to each channel. I have about 13 speakers connected currently and one sub. It will be around 20 or so, plus 2 massive PA speakers/subs.
I was wondering if I could hook up the speakers to a mixer or something so I could adjust single channel volume and sound.
Or if theres a reciever out there that can do this, and has enough room at the speaker outputs for 3+ speakers to be connected to each.
Connecting a mixer to the output of any amplifier that can drive speaker is going to fry the mixer. The mixer is designed to control preamplifier levels. Your connection sequence would be microphone, or line output from an audio source, such as a CD player, to the preamp, which a mixer usually has, and then out to the main amplifier. DO NOT try to use a mixer to control tone levels, or volume level for signals coming from an amplifier, and going to the speakers. Not only is that very late in the process, but it is as stated, an excellent way to fry the mixer. You need to remember, there is a bunch of transistors of some kind connected to those speaker terminals. They are controlling the flow of a few volts and several amps of electrical power. Even if you did not fry the mixer, your sound level would drop to a bare whisper. The mixer, as stated, is for microphone, or line level signals. It's output is NOT designed to deliver power to a speaker. If you did this, and the mixer survived, then you would need another amplifier to get back the desired power to drive the speakers. Use studio type equipment to get the control of signal quality that you want. That is the best way to go. The chances of finding what you want in consumer electronics is very small.
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