How to Add an External Amplifier to Your AV Receiver | Denon AVR-X3600H

what's up YouTube what is going on China do your techno dad here back with another viewer requested video you guys wanted to know how to add an external amp to an AV receiver specifically to the Denon AVR X 3600 H and that is exactly what I'm going to show you and we're gonna get into it right after this word from our show sponsor if you're looking to upgrade your sound or you are just starting out you need to check out the wide range of clip speakers from small bookshelf speakers to heritage tower speakers they have you covered in every price range and for every budget whether it's a sound bar for upgrading your TV experience a two-channel listening room or a full blown Dolby Atmos home theater check out clips calm and you too can be pissing off the neighbors and we are back so for this demonstration I have the Denon AVR X 3600 H para sound halo integrated outlaw model 5000 5 channel amplifier and monolith 9 X 9 channel amplifier 4 cables I'll be using my go-to those are at the Mogami studio gold 3-foot RCA cables let's take a quick look at the back of the X 3600 H so you can see what areas we are going to be using right in the center is the pre out section we will be concentrating here and as you can see there is a zone to pre out but we will not be using it so let's just ignore that section we will be working with these RCA pre outs to connect a total of nine channels externally why nine because I have a five point one point four Dolby Atmos setup which totals nine channels so we're gonna do nine the other part we need to look at and remember to connect is the trigger output which is located here on the back of the Denon we are going to use the outlaw of audio model 5000 which is a five channel amplifier but we will be using it in a two channel 3 channel and five channel configurations now I know in past videos people have been confused with the labels that outlaw has placed for each channels they're trying to tell you how to connect the amp and which channels to go where or which speakers to plug into which channels and since each outputs the same amount of power you actually don't need to follow their like plan I mean I'm not going to I'm going to organize them the way that I want so instead of those letters and assigning them to speakers just imagine they are single channel numbers like one through five and that's all you need to do first things first I'll quickly show you how to connect the trigger cable and now we'll just get rid of that so that's out of the way okay so now we need to connect the front speakers to the amp so how do you know on the back of the Denon which outputs are right and left well that's actually pretty easy you have two colors white and red the easiest way to remember is that red is right which means the white RCA jack is for the left speaker easy right so I want to start with two channel mode so let's plug in the front left speaker which is the white RCA jack into channel 1 on the outlaw 5000 now I'm going to plug the front right speaker which is the red RCA jack into channel 2 of the amp now all we have to do is plug in the trigger cable of course you got to plug in speaker cables and sources and all that kind of stuff what we're not gonna you know go into all that basically it's just the RCA s and the trigger cable and a will be all good to go so if you had a 2-channel amp this is what you need to do also you will have to go into the den and X 3600 H menu and properly assign the pre outs if you haven't seen my video about that I will link it in the description and with the card up top now let's say your plan was to power your front stage and you picked up a 5 channel amplifier as most of the 3 channel amplifiers are pretty expensive so all we need to do from this step is connect another RCA cable this time from the center pre out jack to the third channel on the amplifier again here's what it looks like with the front stage and the trigger cable connected from here if you wanted to power the 5 ear level speakers simply connect at the surround left and surround right to the remaining channels on the amp once you connect those and the trigger cable you're all set up so if you had this five channel amplifier and this AVR you can run five ear level speakers on the external amplifier and run all the other speakers off of the AV receiver and you can do a full seven point two point four dolby atmos set up pretty sweet alright let's move on to the monolith nine channel amplifier now I'll be making an unboxing and overview video about this power amplifier so make sure you subscribe to the channel and hit that Bell so you get notified when that video is released now the first thing you might notice on the back of this amplifier unlike the model 5000 it has both XLR and RCA connections what we need to do first is to tell the amp to use the RCA inputs as opposed to the XLR s to do this we move these switches into the RCA position if your amp has both connection types there will be some sort of selector on the back somewhere now with the outlaw model 5000 it did not matter what amp channels we used as they all output the same amount of power that however is not the case here the monolith 9x sends more power to the front three speakers than the other six channels so in this case we will go ahead and follow their speaker layout on the back of the amp first I will connect the front right to the right RCA on the 9x next is Center so I'll connect from the Denon Center pre out to the amps Center input and now front left to left next is the left surround and then the right surround in my system I don't have surround back channels so we will skip these two pre outs on the Denon next we connect height one right and height one left and then we need to connect height two right and left the final thing to plug in is the trigger cable so once that's done we are ready to fire up this nine channel ad mo setup with all channels externally amplified so I'm sure you're wondering why I brought the halo integrated into this video I've had a lot of questions about how to connect an older amp or old AVR and use that as a power amp now I am not recommending you do this I would recommend getting a straight up power amplifier but I know you guys are just gonna do what you're gonna do so I'll show you how I would do it but again I do not recommend doing this but since I've got so many questions about it might as well show you how to do it why do I not recommend this it's because you will have to deal with setting the volume level on the older amp and of course set it to stereo so it doesn't try to process the incoming signal so after you do that just pick any one of the analog inputs and plug in your front speakers to the older amp or AVR in some integrated amps like this one they have what's called a theater bypass this means you can connect to this input here and it will bypass the preamp functions and will act as a power amp only that's pretty handy and it's pretty cool well there you go everybody I hope this answers a lot of your questions if it didn't you still are confused definitely let me know down in the comments hit me up on social whatever you like to use email me if you like that as well and that's pretty much it for this video I hope you found it informative and useful and don't forget to smash that like button and of course subscribe to the channel and I'll see you next time peace you

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020