HOOKING UP A “BLACK BOX”, CASSETTE DECK & THE
TEN
“Black boxes” include other equalizers, expanders, Bose active equalizers,
noise reduction units, etc. Also called outboard signal processing devices.
1. Locate the four sockets marked TAPE on the back of your receiver, pre-
amp or integrated amplifier. Two will be marked IN or PLAY, and two will be
marked OUT or RECORD.
2. Run a set of connection cords from the receiver’s TAPE OUT to the
TEN’s MAIN IN.
3. Run a set of cords from the receiver TAPE IN to the TEN’s MAIN OUT
sockets. Got that? IN to OUT and OUT to IN.
4. Optionally, if you have a VCR, disc player or TV with audio out, connect
the video device to the TEN’s VIDEO AUX sockets.
5. Run a set of patchcords from the TEN’s TAPE OUT to the additional
unit’s IN sockets.
6. Run a set of patchcords from the TEN’s TAPE IN to the black box’s OUT
sockets.
7 Now locate another set of sockets on the black box titled TAPE OUT and
TAPE IN. Run a set of patchcords from the black box’s TAPE OUT sockets to
your cassette deck’s IN sockets.
8. Now run a set of patchcords from the black box’s TAPE IN sockets to
your cassette deck’s OUT sockets.
9. Enjoy.
With this set-up, input
from your tape deck is
controlled by the “black
box’s” tape monitor circuit.
Leave the TEN’s TAPE
MONITOR and the receiver’s
TAPE MONITOR circuit IN at
all times if you want both the
TEN and the additional add-
on to be operating at all
times.
Music signals go from the
receiver to the TEN, out of
the TEN into the black box,
out of the black box into
cassette deck for recording if
you wish, back into the black
box from the tape deck, out
of the black box into the
TEN and finally from the
TEN into the receiver again.
So you can hear the whole
mess. It’s like links of a chain:
If you have more than one
add-on, they simply go
between the TEN and the
tape deck. Remember that
not turning one of the “links”
on, or not pushing its tape
monitor button, will break
the chain.
