Advice combining monitoring and general audio entertainment

[Arranger]

My old Harmon Kardon 430 receiver and B.I.C. home stereo speakers from the '70s are really on their last legs.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if it would be sensible to connect my CD player, cable radio, and turntable in any known way to the rest of my studio gear - mixer, amp, live sound monitors. I know that my near-field monitors would not be my main listening speakers.

Can anyone suggest if they have melded all of their studio and general music entertainment into one comprehensive system?

...oh, and how you'd go about doing it! Thank you. http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif

[Starbuck]

Ya, just hook everything up to your mixer and run a PA config, fading the components you want to hear in and out. Thats how i can listen to my music while hearing the playstations sound effects without having to comprimise on which of the two i want to hear at the same time. but i dont think thats what you ment, or, if it was then maybe you want a more detailed explanation

[Bops2000]

Arranger,
Did you consider a surround sound system?
They sell for home use, low end 150 bucks.
Then you will have a cd, tuner, and the bloody turntable too, and at prologic sound .
just a thought.
bios

[howie15]

Arranger,
I've read your question for the last couple days deciding how to answer it. Technically, it is feasible to combine all of your studio and home audio etc, etc together...but, my question is....Why??
I have a very nice JBL surround sound speaker package with Sony components (Receiver, DVD, CD etc.) in the living room...but I would never connect them to my small studio setup with Sonar and my JBL LSR25P monitors. I will say that after I do mixes the first place I go is to that CD player in the living room, but that is to check out how it sounds on a system most people will be listening on. But,depending on how serious you are about your recording...I wouldn't hook all those things up.
One reason being is......most "home" speaker systems...no matter how expensive...color the sound...ask anybody on the forums. Want to hear bass that's jacked way high?? put it on an AIWA bookshelf system....want it worse?? add the $100 sub. trust me, My house has 2 of them. My point is...recording/mixing/producing is different than listening to music...just be aware.
Howie

[Starbuck]

Just a little validation for Arranger. I'm pretty sure your just trying to avoid paying for a whole new entertainment system. and why not? you sunk a significant chunk a change into your studio setup, so why not make it work for ya, right? if you have any channels that setup for stereo pairs you can just get some rca to 1/4 adaptors and run everything through your mixer. or even without the stereo channels just pan each channel to repective side with the same adaptors. you've got let me know whether or not this is helping you.

[Arranger]

You got it, Star. And I'm not that worried about the home stereo sounding that hot as long as it doesn't corrupt my studio activities.

Thanks for your ongoing interest in my topic. I may add a decent power amp to my mixer and see where it gets me. Only my phono will need an alternate preamp that way.