You can purchase a phono pre-amp for moving magnet cartridges from Recoton at places like buy.com for less than $30. Please understand that at $30 it will be very listenable thriough your aux input on your receiver but will not sound like a $300 - several thousand $ phono stage designed for preamplifiers without phono sections (like your receiver). Vinyl records are encoded with what is called a RIAA curve alowing for low frequencies through high frequencies to be etched (stamped) into the small groove. The phono pre-amp decodes this curve! The accuracy of this decoding varies greatly between phono preamps. Very acurate (+/- .1 dB or less) usually sound better than less accurate (+/- .5dB). The ear detects miilibells of difference in frequency as comppared to needing decibles for volume (loudness). Anyway hope this helps. A $30 unit will work and you will be able to listen to your vinyl but it does sound better with better equipment.
Mark --- In [email protected], "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/c9hWNA/3MnJAA/n1hLAA/yXLolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zappa-List/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
