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The "clueless" response by the Radio Shack personnel is simply they don't
know their own product line. Realistic - a RS brand - has been making pre-amps
for years. They still do, I believe. The problem is in your stylis; it's
probably ceramic. You just need something that changes the signal, like a
pre-amp. Or one of the ones mentioned in the other posts...
Yeah ebay will work too. But those jobs are still out there...
SOFA
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 3:43
PM
Subject: [Zappa-List] Off Topic Question
to Audiophiles
Greetings, oh my brothers,
After listening to music
by way of boomboxes and headphones for the
past few years, I decided to
buy, finally, a decent am/fm stereo
receiver for my 50th birthday. I
got one at Radio Shack. A
Sherwood RX-4103. 105 watts/channel
RMS with .03% THD. A receiver
like this would've cost four or five
hundred bucks 25 years ago. I
paid $100. I hooked up my old
but trusty JBL L100 speakers, my
cassette/CD player boombox, and my VCR
and DVD players. What a
sound, oh my brothers!
Clean..powerful...The more I increased the
volume, the better the
sound! Then I hooked up my good Pioneer
manual turntable to the AUX
inputs. (There aren't any phono inputs,
but I didn't think it would
matter...Those of you in-the-know are
laughing now!!) I put on a
record, set the tone arm gently on the
beginning of the record....and got
NOTHING, unless I turned the
volume all the way up. Then I got a
tinny, faraway sound... Dammit,
I wanted to hear the mating call of the
adult male mudshark with
some VOLUME...I didn't panic...I went to
Sherwood's website and
clicked the "questions and answers" link.
There, lo and behold, the
very first question was "Why won't my turntable
work??" Sherwood's
answer was simple. All I needed was a "phono
pre-amplifier
available at most electronics shops for $20-$30."
Hahahaha...Radio
Shack, Best Buy, and Circuit City don't have them and
didn't even
know what they were. I did a Google search for "phono
pre-
amplifiers." hahaha...I found one as big as my receiver for 300
dollars...I found a few schematics....I found things that looked
like
junk, and pre-amps for turntables with moving-coil cartridges,
which I
don't have....LOL....Can any of you give me some advice or
information, oh
my brothers?? I own over 300 record albums in
excellent condition,
many of them imports...I'm sick and disgusted
and infuriated...I thank you
in advance, oh me brothers...
very stoned regards,
grey_hipster
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