DaveLeeNC Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I have a POD HD500x that I use pretty casually. The outputs drive a pair of JBL LSR305 active speakers. I am a pretty light duty user of this device (low level of understanding of what is going on here).. I have a ifi Nano iDSD BL DAC/Headphone amp device with both low and hi impedance headphone outputs plus a Line Out. I would like to take the output of this DAC/Amp and send it to my speakers. The simplest path would seem to be to go from the Line Out to the AUX input of the HD500x. Then just use a preset with nothing in the path, mixer set to neutral, and input 1 set to AUX with input 2 set to SAME. Is there a better solution here? I do NOT need to be using the HD500x for anything in this case - just looking to get from the DAC/Amp output to my speakers (I would be streaming music off Tidal in this case). Thanks. dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I don't know why you would need the pod to stream audio to speakers, but... the pod's cd input (or whatever it is called) does not run through the pod's effects. in fact, it doesn't get controlled by the master volume knob either. that seems like the cleanest option using the pod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLeeNC Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 pianoguy, thanks. That was not obvious from my (probably deficient) reading of the manual. FWIW, I don't 'need' the POD to stream to my speakers. But my speakers are connected to the POD and I was looking for a simple alternative to use them as audio streaming speakers as well (without having to switch the speaker inputs). I had been using the POD as my computer system sound device until I changed my interests a bit expanding to some alternative/newer audio formats like dsd and MQA. dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I don't know if that is written in the manual(s). I use that 'feature' to design patches. I also use it to set the master volume. Audio isn't controlled by the MV, so audio can become my 'baseline' for volume leveling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLeeNC Posted April 3, 2019 Author Share Posted April 3, 2019 OK - I hereby declare myself to be a finalist for "Dunce of the Decade". The HD500X has a CD/MP3 player input. Duh ........... dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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