
#Rca victor radio console manual
The turntable options, via manual knob selection are: On ond Off, and 16, 33, 45a, and 78 rpm speeds.įurther functioning has not been tested yet. Music was audible from the LP, but not through its speakers. Upon cursory check, the turntable worked and the radio drew in static. There is a storage space, presumably for LPs, in between the radio and turntable portions of the console. The radio has "Automatic Frequency Control" and "Filteramic Antenna." It operates via knobs controlling band selection, AM, FM, reverb, and balance. I would not use one with a tube amp without consulting an expert.This is a combination turntable/AM-FM stereo console. Generally safe with solid state amplifiers that do not care if the speaker impedance goes high and are only unhappy if it goes too low.
#Rca victor radio console upgrade
You can find similar circuits built into cables commonly used in the Car stereo industry as a way to interface legacy car radios with no aux outputs to upgrade car amplifiers. The Russound module is in a form factor specifically designed to attach to on of their products I suspect. Why they haven't put it in a box is a mystery, but is this unsafe to audio kit it is used with? Yes that is simply a voltage divider circuit that goes across the speaker terminals to pull off a signal without significantly changing the load seen by the amp. That is the route I am referring to would using such a device in the signal path be unsafe to kit at either end? I would not recommend a hack either but I remember reading here about recommendations of an off the shelf device that can be used to wire speaker terminals of the Connect Amp safely to any line in level audio input jacks. Maybe you could put a pair of resistors across the speaker to create a voltage divider that provides an output signal without significantly changing the impedance seen by the amplifier but I would consult a more technical resource than me to see if this would be a feasible approach. I suspect that cable also includes the power wires for the preamp so I doubt if it is something you can utilize.

The picture does not show the cable that connects the preamp section where the tape and tuner are plugged in to the amplifier section so there is no way to know if that is an option. I would not remove them for fear of damaging the amplifier.

The speaker plugs imply any extension speakers are connected in series.

I don't think there is a plug and play solution for you here. I added a photo of the external speaker device and a photo of the tape input. The record player output is routed into some type of converter box - from there speaker wire goes into the pictured device and then out to a set of L and R speakers that are built into the cabinet. I have located what looks like an output for external speakers. The Connect Amp is an expensive thing to ruin if you put the wrong load on the speaker output. People do similar hacks to add a headphone output as well but it is not the ideal way to accomplish this and I don't encourage it unless you are confident you know what you are doing. You mean feed that to a Connect Amp? And isn't there a converter of some kind that can be added between wires running from the speaker terminals of the RCA to the line in jacks of the Connect Amp, that bring down the voltage to the required line level? If yes, can a similar set up also be used to connect the speaker terminals of the Connect Amp to the input socket available for the iPod? That could be done with an appropriate interface or home brew circuit. Not impossible but also not something to attempt unless you are proficient with electronic circuits and audio interfaces. If there is no output for a tape recorder or headphone output then you would have to build a circuit to pad audio pulled from the speaker and feed that to a Connect.
