On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:08 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > Thanks. That's what I needed to know. > > Yes, I've got a turntable, with stereo output; I've got an amplifier - a nice > little Fender Harvard. I just don't know how to connect the two together and > then to my soundcard. > > Wesley Parish > You don't want that amplifier for this project. Musical instrument anps and stereo amps are very different beasts.
Most modern stereo amplifiers are not going to help you either; they no longer have phono preamp circuitry. If someone offers you the loan of a stereo amplifier, it must have a "phono" setting on its input select switch, else don't bother with it. Outboard phono preamps, which apply some amplification and RIAA equalisation to the feeble signal generated by a magnetic phono cartridge, are available for about $50. Try a decent audio shop, or Dick Smith, or Jaycar. You plug your turntable cables into the inputs of the phono preamp, the outputs of the preamp into the line level inputs of your sound card (you'll probably want a 2-RCA-plugs-to-3-mm-stereo-plug cable for the latter) and you'll be right. You won't even need a complete stereo amplifier. =====Andrew
