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[The History Man]

Turn it down again.

Phil Collins. Genesis.

Get a nice little phono stage and it’s all good.

 

[legrandefromage]

Have to interject there,almost all av amps have a phono input. Even av processors. And certainly the vast majority of basic amplification had them as standard. Where I worked, a separate mm/mc processor was available to make that stack of separates even bigger.

As for the no sound, the usual culprit is the phono leads breaking down inside.

 

[The History Man]

My nad has the input but phono stage not fitted.

 

[KermitGKona88]

Re:

Just going to get this one in before anyone else does :facepalm:

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[allenh]

Have to interject there,almost all av amps have a phono input. Even av processors. And certainly the vast majority of basic amplification had them as standard. Where I worked, a separate mm/mc processor was available to make that stack of separates even bigger.

As for the no sound, the usual culprit is the phono leads breaking down inside.

Yes and no not really, they did right up until the mid/late 90's and do again now but there's a period in the middle where most amps of any sort didn't have a phono stage built in, it was more common with AV amps for a while and the Cambridge range from Richers is a great example from this period of a HiFi amp with a phono position on the input selector but no phono stage built in, the rationale at the time being that very few people had turntables still and if they did they would use a separate phono stage.

The fact Mark is getting a low level output on high volume is symptomatic of this because the output from a standard MM cartridge is way below standard line level which all other bits of HiFi produce.

 

[legrandefromage]

Yeah well you like valves so all credibility is instantly lost.

Ner.

My stacks biggerererer than yours anyway

 

[Gerard]

My stacks biggerererer than yours anyway

No its not.......

 

[legrandefromage]

well thats just silly billy

 

[The History Man]

Along with the curtains.

 

[legrandefromage]

Reminds me, I still have these squirrelled away in LGF towers

Almost as equally daft