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Here's the final booty-fab. Sound quality is good, surprisingly. The convenience of using the Plasma's remote control as a master gain, is worth the trade-off of any degradation in frequency response, imo. This is coupled to a Radio Shack ground loop isolator. There is still a slight but detectable hum, however far less than just using a resistor across the speaker terminals. Although I can live with it, for the purpose of compulsiveness and elucidation, how can the remaining hum be eliminated? Or, do you see any improvements that can be made? Warren

Thanks for the replies... Let me carify Staigen, the speaker terminal output of the Plasma is rated at (16W (8W + 8W) into 6 ohms) whereas my component amplifier is 80W. I like the idea of using a resistor across the plasma's speaker terminals to act as a load. Yes audioguru, that's exactly what I'd like to happen. The input sensitivity of my amplifier is 150mV and 50 kohms so it seems by your calculations that the attenuation is about right. ----------------------- However, how about the following as a simpler alternative? Use a 10 ohm 5W resistor across the plasma's speaker terminals for load. Then, cut a 3 foot RCA cable in half, connecting the tinned ends to the plasmas speaker terminals (parallel to the resistor). Couple the RCA male ends to a ground loop isolator, and then from the isolator to the component amp. In your opinions, would this be as good a solution as the first? .

...don't overwhelm me with the responses. Is this thread in the wrong section, or are noobs on this board persona non grata ;). How about it fellas, chime in.

Hi, I'm new to this board. Many thanks in advace for any information or advice I might receive on this topic. Sorry for the long post. I have a Plasma monitor which has no Audio Out or Variable Audio Out >:( , and I have an older Amplifier (with large capacitors) than I like a lot, driving my home system. The VCR is used as my tuner and I also have a DVD player. No cable or satellite box to use as a controller. So here's my problem. I'd like to use the Plasma's remote to control master volume since the amplifier is not remote controlled. The Sony DVD player doesn't have volume control either (though ironically, there is one on it's remote ??? ) and neither does the VHS. I can't control volume on the components separately. The Plasma does have external speaker terminals (16W (8W + 8W) into 6 ohms). Amplifier is 80W. So, I'd like to implement the following solution, Speaker Level to Line Level from the external speaker terminals from the Plasma to the amplifier, as a workaround to my particular situation. Here are my ?'s. -Will the above work and still be able to provide gain through the Plasma's remote, (variable audio out)? -Approximately, how much will the sound quality degrade as opposed to connecting audio L/R directly to the amplifier. -Is there a better/more elegant low cost solution? I've all ready spent too much money on the Plasma and don't want to buy a seperate remote contolled preamp or A/V receiver, especially when i consider my amplifier to be better quality than many of the units around today. TIA, Warren