Has anyone used this amp with a turntable? More specifically, will I need an audio preamp to get the best sound?
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You will need to use a preamp with this receiver, there is no phono input. You can buy a phono preamp starting at about $20. If you don't use a phono preamp, the sound will be very quiet and you'll have to crank the sound all the way up to hear it at all. Some turntables have a phono preamp built in, in which case you won't need one.
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The Marantz TT42P is a nice piece of equipment. It works well. I found almost no staticwhen playing old Vinyl records. If your amplifier has phono input that means you cannot use a turntable with a preamp. You have to buy a turntable without a preamp!
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I've never used an amp like yours. I use tube gear. I got this preamp because the output of my MC cartridge is not very high, though they call it a high output MC. It did give me a more dynamic input to my tube preamp. I bought this unit because I've had satisfactory service from other Cambridge products and mainly because it will work with both MM and MC cartridges. I have another turntable with a regular output MC cartridge and may attach the Cambridge to it in the future.
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i actually use another rca line input and use the pre amp from my turntable with an in line booster (between turntable and 5000) and it works much better than the phono input on the 5000. i was getting a humming noise using phono input. your setup might be different though. either way my vinyl sounds awesome now!
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i dont think u need a seperate pre-amp - i have a turntable and all i use is a speaker bar (large powered speakers... not the best, but for now it works) that plugs into the pre-amp, and then the preamp hooks into the record player
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No, you will not need a pre-amp. I have a SONY turntable hooked up to mine as ,works great!
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You can hook it up to anything with a red and white connection. Or if you get the rca to 3.5mm jack then you can hook it up to anything with an input slot. I used this on my realistic lab 440 which doesn't have a preamp. Once I connected the ground from my turntable into the ground slot on this amp, my music sounded loud and clear.
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You'll definitely need an RIAA-type of preamp (Amazon has a few economical models). The signal coming out of a turntable needs to be EQ'd and boosted to work properly. No real way around it. :-)
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You can simple test your amplifier by connecting the audio output from the turntable to your power amp and see if you can control the sound volume. I suspect that you might not get any sound from the power amp even at max output power. Then you need the pre-amp to boost the signal from the turntable before connecting it to the power amp. Hope this helps.
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You shouldn't need a separate preamp since most modern turntables already have preamps built in. So if you want to buy one just in case, do so but it shouldn't be needed.
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You'll need cables to connect the speakers to the amp. The turntable has it's own cables. It's a nice setup, you'll be happy with the quality of the sound.
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Yes, indeed. If your need was like mine (no built-in pre-amp on the turntable and no specifically dedicated phono input on your amplifier) you will find this unit to be the perfect solution to needed amplification of the turntable's output. Don't forget to hook up the ground wire as directed or you may wind up putting unwanted noise into the audio.
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You'll need cables to connect the speakers to the amp. The turntable has it's own cables.It's a nice setup, you'll be happy with the quality of the sound.
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A PREamp is just that, it raises the signal coming from a device like your turntable. You still need a main AMP to connect the preamp to. The main AMP connects to the speakers. If you have powered speakers like computer speakers or a sound bar you would connect this to the turntable and the powered speakers or sound bar as they have an amp in them. If they are plain old speakers you need a main amp which will probably have a preamp in it for turntables. You would need to read the specs.
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Yes. I added a pre-amp to my turntable. It works very well. Highly recommended.
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With this turntable you could have almost any kind of setup. It has a built in pre-amp. Meaning you could use this on a bookshelf system if thats what you have. I myself have a mid 90's Technics receiver that I ultimately route through my Sony 7.1 receiver which has no turntable pre-amp built in. My room is set up strange so I have large RCA cables going from the Technics (that the turntable is plugged into) into the Sony. Sound confusing? Dont let it be...whatever you may have, be it micro system or whatever, as long as you have an open AUX,PHONE,whatever STEREO input, you'll be fine. Just make sure if said system doesnt have a built in phono pre-amp, you switch the pre-amp on the turn table on and you're good to go
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If your turntable does not have an internal preamp, then you will need an external phono preamp prior to input into one of the audio inputs on the receiver. Decent ones are available for about $50: http://www.amazon.com/ART-II-Preamplifier-Outputs-Switchable/dp/B000AJR482