Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

[Uranium-235]

A former co-worker/friend just moved and part of that was this big 70's kenwood stereo system with big speakers. I'm still not 100% sure it will continue working because its been in a cooled environment, it's has not been plugged in in 15 years.

I get the premise, preamp as the hub which connects with just two rca cables to the main amp but there is also a surround amp with two smaller speakers. I've seen preamps with dual stereo outputs, this one only has one.

Also is this 'control' thing that takes stereo cable that seems to connect up all the devices (Turntable, Tuner, Tape).

It will be hooked up at the new house with JUST the preamp and amp hooked to the TV (having to use a toslink coax to rca adapter)

how can I hook the surround stereo up? There is no second output from the preamp (though i've seen models online that do)

Preamp: KC-208
Amp: KM-208
Surround Processor: SS-78

[rhomanski]

Re: Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

If you care about music, you need two separate systems. Surround sound processors are not made for critical listening of music. I've had several different processors from several different companies and won't listen to music on any of them. I still use my system from 1976, The surround sound is not much better than listening to music on an AM radio.

For your question, how about a "Y" . https://www.amazon.com/Mediabridge-U...cable+splitter .

[Uranium-235]

Re: Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

They use will use it for TV mainly

[R_J]

Re: Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

connect the tv out to the ss-78, line in, connect pre out to the preamp, preamp to main amp. ss-78 has its own speaker outputs, I'm sure there are otherways to do this

[R_J]

Re: Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

I mis-read the post
are you trying to hook up the Kenwood 70's preamp/amp AND a seperate surround stereo to the tv?

[Uranium-235]

Re: Hooking up surround for 1970's stereo

well the surround in this case would be expanded stereo. (unless I got a toslink to rca surround converter and just hooked the back speakers to the surround)

well the surround is its own amp to the back speakers, so I would think, the pre to the amp and surround amp (other kenwood preamps have two stereo outputs [4 connectors] for outputs to both) but this only has one

the surround I would imagine would have to be hooked to the preamp somehow