Okay, i am throwing a party this weekend. i have a 400W kenwood home stereo which pumps out the tunes pretty good.

i also have a sony 500W hometheatre amp.

both amps have 2 matching speakers, 8 ohms.

what i would like to do, is use the sony amp as a monitor, to put beside the DJ so he can hear what is going on with no distortion or delay.

then i can leave my kenwoods where they are for people to hear the sound.

so.. question is, how do i hook this up?

I have a vestax PCV275, it has outputs for master only, no record or zone output.

it does have 2 master outs, one is RCA (which i am using) and the other is balanced XLRs.

do i need to output from the mixer to do this? because i don't have XLR inputs on the sony.

I have it hooked up right now, with a CD playing, into the CD input on the kenwood.

then i did something, which is working, but i am scared about. i hooked the headphone output of the kenwood, to the line in on the sony. it seems to be working, but i am worried of blowing the inputs on the sony, because the headphone input does have some amplification.

the sony also has a tape out, which should allow me to output that at line level to the kenwood. i tried, and it didn't seem to work though.

the kenwood has a section marked adaptor, where it has 2 RCA pairs for in and out, i assume this is for a preamp or poweramp.

BUT, they are covered over with bridge plugs right now. if i take out the plugs the sound stops.

so, what do i do?