You either need to buy a pre-amp to control your amp or if your reciever has low level outputs then you can hook it up that way!
I recently purchased an Adcom GFA-1 poweramp and am very pleased with its power and SQ. The one major complaint is that it has no volume control. This was expected since it solely is an amp, and not an "integrated". The other minor problem is that I keep blowing my speaker fuses, but thats my fault, I need to protect my ears anyway. So anyway, I figured that I could hook this into the headphone jack of my current reciever and use its volume and tone controls. I neglected to think about noise. The headphone jack has an incredible amount of noise at low volumes. In order to not hear the noise, you have to turn the volume to deafening levels. That will not work in a dorm room. So anyway, does anyone know of an external volume control I could purchase, possibly remote controlled? If so, where to purchase one? I also have an EQ that works well to make a nice flat, smooth sound but it has some noise when enabled. So I figured that if I put this volume control between the EQ's out and the Adcom's Input, i could eliminate low level noise and listen to DVD's and SACD's at tolerable levels. Thanks again!

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