HELP WITH A OLD Yamaha AV-85 PY Natural Sound Stereo Amplifier

[Jas Ramz]

Hey everyone, I found It on a garage sell for 25 bucks and was thinking on buying It, the problem Is that I don't know If It will be useful to me, I would like to use It as a headphone amp with my dac. Can anybody tell me If It would work that way and If so how I set It up?

I see It has a headphones jack on the front, how I make It work with my dac via rca?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

[zizzyhead]

I'm not sure I understand your concern but you should be able to connect the DAC to the CD input on the back of the unit via RCA cables. Then its just a matter of selecting the CD button on the front and plugging your headphones into the headphone jack on the front.

 

[Jas Ramz]

I'm not sure I understand your concern but you should be able to connect the DAC to the CD input on the back of the unit via RCA cables. Then its just a matter of selecting the CD button on the front and plugging your headphones into the headphone jack on the front.

Ok, so I connect the RCA cables right here?



And then select the CD mode in the front. Do you know how much power I would be getting from the Yamaha's headphone jack per channel?

 

[zizzyhead]

That is correct. I googled the manual for your unit and it looks like the headphone output on the unit is 180 mV rated at 150 ohms. Here's the link for the manual. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/339797/Yamaha-Av-85py.html?page=15#manual