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Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm
I used to get the Fisher "Studio Standard" component returns from the local Navy Exchange - useless without the amp because of the power arrangement, so I'd traipse over to Radio Shack and get a cheapo power tranny and install them inside the tape deck or equalizer along with a power cord to make them stand-alone units.
JVC had a similar arrangement with some of their 80's stereos.
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Well yeah, that's kind of the point of a rack system, you're supposed to keep the unit together as one... I think that's why they used the ribbon cable method to power everything off the amp, so that people wouldn't go and spend $500 or more on the system and try and mate it with a competitors equipment and void the warrantee if something were to happen with the competitors unit that would result in the rest of the original unit getting fried, that way they would only have to honor their warrantee and if damage resulted from use with equipment other than their own then they wouldn't have to honor the warrantee, more or less a way of saying "if you don't use our parts or equipment with our units then you've just voided your warrantee", just like how car companies wouldn't honor repairs to a car's sound system if the original head unit was replaced with an aftermarket unit but left the rest of the original sound system in place, that's because you've more or less voided your car's warrantee by messing with the original sound system, this was especially true with GM and Chrysler, who used Bose and Infinity respectively in their cars.