Onkyo TX-SR304 Connecting a CD Player or Turntable, Connecting Your Components-Continued

Connecting Your Components—Continued

Connecting a CD Player or Turntable

■CD Player or Turntable with Built-in Phono Preamp

aConnect your CD player’s analog audio output jacks, or your turntable with built-in phono preamp’s audio output jacks to the AV receiver’s CD IN L/R jacks. With connection a , you can listen to and record audio from the CD player or turntable.

bIf your CD player has an optical output jack, connect it to the AV receivers DIGITAL IN OPT 2 jack.

cIf your CD player has a coaxial output jack instead of an optical one, connect it to the AV receiver’s DIGITAL IN COAXIAL jack, and set the DIGITAL INPUT assignment to COAX (see page 33). Coaxial connections perform the same as optical ones.

AV receiver

: Signal Flow

Connect one or the other

b

c

a

OPTICAL

OUT

COAXIAL

OUT

L

AUDIO

OUT

R

CD player

or

Turntable (MM) with

built-in phono preamp

■ Turntable (MM) with no Phono Preamp Built-in	■ Turntable with an MC (Moving Coil) Cartridge
A phono preamp is necessary to connect a turntable that	An MC head amp and phono preamp are necessary to
doesn’t have a phono preamp built-in.	connect a turntable with an MC (Moving Coil) cartridge.
AV receiver	AV receiver

IN

L

R

CD

AUDIO

OUTPUT L

R

Phono preamp	IN
	L
	R
	CD

AUDIO

OUTPUT L

R

Phono preamp

AUDIO	AUDIO
INPUT	OUTPUT
L	L

R R

AUDIO

OUTPUT

L

R

AUDIO INPUT

L

R

MC head amp or MC transformer

AUDIO	AUDIO
OUTPUT	INPUT
L	L
R	R

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