Question on Using HiFi Speakers as Monitors

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I recently bought a Aardvark Q10 and have been having alot of fun with it, but when I connected a line from the monitor outs to the aux input of my receiver, the level was very low, and I had to turn the volume all the way up. Am I supposed to use some amplifier or something or is this just the way it is?
 
is there a level control on the monitor outs? The receiver is equipped to accept a line level.
 
There is a level control, but it seems sorta odd because I turn the receivers volume up much higher than normal to get a normal range for me to control with the q10's volume control.
 
Check for....

Check to see the the monitor outs are not going to the receivers phono input because this input is at -10 and in most cases your Q10 is a +4. Make sure they are the same on both sides. You can also check to see that the monitor outs are turned up sending the signal to the receiver.

Hope you figure it out,
sonicpaint
 
Pay no attention to the windows mixer! It is only used for windows sounds when using the q-10. Here are a few thing to try... make sure the main output bus in your recording software has a solid level, then make shure you have indeed plugged in to the monitor out on the back of the q-10, set the master fader in the q-10's mixer for decent amount of juice, and also check to see what level the outputs are in the advanced section of the q-10, and finaly, adjust the monitor output knob on the front to taste.
 
Heh. It ended up that my connections were just old and nasty (I probably used way to many adapters and not very good ones at that.) I went to radioshack and got 2 rca to rca cords and then got two rca to 8 inch mono adapters and everything worked fine. Thanks for the help anyway.
 
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