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Tube Tuner/Multiplex Question

himm37

himm37

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I recently aquired a Magnavox tube console, and when I opened it up I found a nice little bonus: a Knight (tube) MPX unit! I was going to ask if these were interchangable between brands, but I guess they must be as it was working this way. My question is; I have an HH Scott 314 mono fm tuner that is mint, should I, can I use the Knight unit with my Scott Tuna, and what should I expect, and or watch out for?



Thanks in Advance!
 
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Absolutely! About the only thing I can think of to look out for (other than the usual caveats about re-capping, etc.) is that some mono tuners provide two output jacks. One is the "normal" output that is connected to a preamp, the other is taken directly from the detector output (bypassing the de-emphasis network) that is intended solely for connection to an appropriate multiplex unit. Also, some multiplex units are configured only for this higher-level tuner output, some are configured so as to be connected to the "normal" output, and some (like my Fisher MPX-100) have both high and low level inputs. I don't think you can hurt anything by hooking one sort of output into the "wrong" sort of input, but I guess sound quality might suffer.

--Bob
 
Like others have said should work, if you have an out marked MPX than you
should be good to go.
 
Cool, and thanks again. The Scott tuner has 2 outputs marked channel A and channel B (tape out) plus a MPX out. I'm assuming I connect the MPX out to the knight unit, and then use the right and left out on the MPX unit to my preamp?
 
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