I must confess that at this point I'm feeling a might bit stupid for my earlier, glib response. I guess I think strictly in lay terms. lol Mark
Markhothem wrote: >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 Zappa-List@yahoogroups.com, "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 >> >> > > > > > > >For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or >http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you. >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ 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/
