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nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:

>Mitch <sumcoolgai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Dave Houston wrote:
>>> Mitch <sumcoolgai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>My dyslexia might be getting the better of me ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Many of the mighty have fallen. Klipsch, Fisher and other names in the HiFi
>>> pantheon no longer mean what they once did.
>>>
>>>
>>>>If you want to use your receiver as the source and your pc to play
>>>>what's coming from it on your pc speakers, then run from the tape-out to
>>>>the line-in on your audigy card.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tape-out may have nothing on it when there is no tape-in feed. Sometimes
>>> these were intended to monitor as you record.
>>>
>>Usually, the tape out always has something and there's a "monitor"
>>button to tell the unit to play what's coming back on the tape-in
>>(otherwise it plays the source straight out).
>>
>>But, as Dave says, sometimes the tape-out doesn't work this way, in
>>which case you'll probably have to go from the pre-amp out to the
>>line-in on your audigy card.
>
>The Advent 300 is a legendary piece of audio gear from the mid-70s, renowned
>for its tuner and preamp. Without an owners manual it may be hard to figure
>out just what the various inputs and outputs do as terminology has evolved
>(my apologies to any  anti-evolutionists) and the gear to which it was
>designed to mate (reel-to-reel tape?) has morphed in the intervening years.
>
>From what I can find on the web (very little) the preamp may have been just
>for a phono pickup, in which case, it would not apply here despite my
>earlier guess that it would.