Audio input
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Dec 15 22:05:38 UTC 2006
George Arseneault wrote:
> At the risk of sounding dumb:
>
> How old is the phono-player?
>
> The reason I'm asking is because some of the older
> players have a different style of pre-amplifier and
> require a special input. (long time since I dealt with
> this... I think it was called a "ceramic input")
> Without the right input on your amplifier it would
> sound very faint or possibly not be audible at all.
>
I thought the ceramic input actually gave a higher level input the
the magnetic ones. In any case, the phono pre-amp also has to
compensate for the response curve of the magnetic cartridge. This is
why amps (used to?) have a phono input besides the aux unput - the
levels and response curve is different between a phone-player and a
tape deck.
Mikkel
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