Can't get turntable to work with my receiver (1 Viewer)

[Carrie]

Hi everybody. I have an old turntable bought in the mid to late 80's. We wanted to hook it up to our home theater system. We have a Pioneer XV-HTD330 DVD/CD Receiver with a Tuner and surround sound speakers. I hook up the turntable to the analog input jacks on the back of the receiver, but all we get is a quiet playing of a record even when we turn to the receiver to maximum volume. Any suggestions? We would really like to listen to our records. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Carrie

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Phono signals are significantly lower than other components, as you have already seen, so they don’t work with regular inputs. You will need a phono pre-amp. I think you should be able to find one at Radio Shack. The ’table will first connect to the pre-amp, the pre-amp will go to your analog input jack.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[Joey Skinner]

Check out ebay if you can't find one at Radio Shack.

 

[Chu Gai]

http://www.audioreplay.net/index.html

 

[gregD]

Phono pre's from reasonable to ridiculous:

http://www.needledoctor.com/s.nl/c.A...ategory.401/.f

 

[luke_ha]

just out of curiosity who really believes that that 15k phono stage is really worth it?

 

[BartJY]

You might have a receiver that has a switch for moving magnetic (MM) or moving coil (MC) type of cartridge. Make sure it’s on the correct setting. A wrong setting will cause that problem. Or as other have suggested you might need a phone cartridge amp. I think Radio Shack sells such a thing.

 

[Scott_N]

Well the only way a super expensive phono preamp could even be considered IMO is if you have a super expensive moving coil cartridge with very very low output of .1mv or less and you need alot of gain and a preamp that is dead quiet and has alot of loading options and is tubed. I doubt very many people own the Zanden and those that do probably have over 20k in their table/arm and cartridge. So I would say that for 99.9% of audiophiles it wouldn't be worth it but for that .1% that want to get the most out of their vinyl that is possible and cost is no object I would say maybe but heck even my dream phono preamp the Lamm LP2 costs less than half the Zanden.

 

[BartJY]

Carrie, did you get it to work?

 

[Marc_Sulinski]

You've already checked the receiver to make sure it doesn't have inputs labeled "phono" right?

 

[Mark Riley]

Although this may not help, I have an 80's Fisher record player/tape deck and I connected Red/White Audio wires from the Auxillary ports to the receiver in the SACD input. Another input might work too.

 

[NickSo]

because its a tape deck combo it might already ahve a phono preamp, which is why it would work in those ports of the receiver.

 

[Gralen]

Carrie is there a ground wire connection? If there is, is it connected?

 

[Chu Gai]

I believe that was the one and only post Carrie ever made. We shall never know.

 

[John S]

Threads back from the grave.....

 

[BartJY]

Oh well, have a good life Carrie