using my teac home receiver with "cd direct" to monitor

[theloniusjones]

i have an older teac home audio receiver that has a "cd direct" function that disables the receiver's eq, etc. knobs and i guess supposedly allows direct amplification of the audio signal without modifying it. i'm on a tight budget and looking to get a set of monitor speakers. i'm thinking of getting some passive yorkville ysm-1's and using my teac to power them. how would this compare to using a dedicated built-for-monitoring power amp? and would it be no different than using any home receiver with the eq set flat? i'm guessing that just by nature of being a home receiver it would "color" the sound some, but if i remember right teac makes tascam so i thought maybe this function was put in with the home recordist in mind. what do you think?

thanks - tim

 

[Massive Master]

You're bound to get a dozen different takes on this -

I'm very much into doing what you can with what you have, so I say go for it. If the monitors are decent, you can always upgrade to a better amp, yada, yada.

The important thing is to learn your room and your monitors so you can trust them with what your hearing.

John Scrip - www.massivemastering.com

 

[regebro]

i have an older teac home audio receiver that has a "cd direct" function that disables the receiver's eq, etc. knobs and i guess supposedly allows direct amplification of the audio signal without modifying it. i'm on a tight budget and looking to get a set of monitor speakers. i'm thinking of getting some passive yorkville ysm-1's and using my teac to power them. how would this compare to using a dedicated built-for-monitoring power amp?

Not badly. Amplifiers are much easier to build than speakers, so the differences are smaller, simply put.