Sherwood AM-8500G/B

[prepress]

Dear Friends,

I need your valuable feedback and help.

Somebody is selling his Sherwood AM-8500G (gold) power amplifier 250 Watts per channel (approx). It doesn't have any control (everything was in its pre-amp which is missing), only speaker selector A + B. Weight is around 30 Kgs. Line Inputs are there. Can I use this power amp with iPod as it has volume, equalizer presets, and good signal quality. Or any CD player with Line Out/In?

Is there any difference of using Individual Large Heavy Pre-Amps? I guess Only advantage of these pre-amps is we can control the gain, bass and treble. Other sources of pre-amp are pure direct line outs and depends on the signal strength.

But we can control the gain, bass and treble with Apple iPod.

Comments please.

Thanks in advance.

Dan

 

[dbhuis]

Well i don't know much about it, but i think that the signal that comes from the ipod is too low to be amplified properly. I mean, that pre-amplifier wil output a lot more than an ipod.

 

[prepress]

Thanks for your reply. I understand, do you think I should use Pre-Power separately? I am using Yamaha A-S500 Integrated Amp now?