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dig deep

Prince of Birthdays
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My Satellite Setup
Dream7020 and AZ Elite and a few DM800
My Location
Sweden
Hi folks. I decided to set up my record player but tried to connect it to me 5 speaker system but it is too new
for record player so I built me a riaa preamplifier and connected it to aux but the sound is not clear.
Kind of "foggy" if You understand :p

So,why can it just work ? Perhaps I will have to dig up:-doh a tube amplifier to feel the old music again ?
 
Do you have a moving coil or moving magnet pickup? If mc you might need an additional amp or transformator prior to the riaa stage.
 
Woofers and tweeters grand-dad.

The cartridge you have in the deck makes a difference, you need to match the impedance to the device connected to it.
 
Cartridge alignment, worn stylus, poor-quality cartridge & stylus, worn records, dirty records, broken wires in the tonearm, could be anything really... :)

And don't bother with tube amps, they're for audiophools who think oxygen gets inside of copper and insist all records should sound "warm and muffled"... :)

My setup is pretty simple, Pioneer PL-400 deck with an Audio Technica AT-95 cartridge going into a Cambridge Audio 540p preamp followed by my home-made line attenuator (stops the output overloading my line-in ports on my computers), then after that it can go into anything and sound great... :D
 
And don't forget. your hearing frequency range changes and often deteriorates with age as I have recently found out. Listening to a CD in the car I asked my wife why the Beatles sounded so crap, only to discover that I actually have level 2 hearing loss in one ear and have a total hearing loss at one particular frequency. The point I am trying to make is do not discount your own equipment as the source of the problem!
 
Even though I'm only 29 and don't listen to loud things a lot, one side of my hearing is a bit weaker than the other, has been for some time too, though it was a PITA when setting up my turntable not long after I got my preamp as I thought I had an issue with the cartridge or preamp having a weak output on the right, but when I flipped my headphones round, it was still quieter on the right, dunno why it was suddenly so apparent with my turntable, but, there you go... :lol:
 
Well, I've been hard of hearing since birth, especially at higher frequencies. I tend to turn those ones up on equalizers and then people ask me why it sounds so 'bright'...
 
Thank´s, many good ideas. Must look into the impedance problem, when I play a CD all is OK.
 
Took all ideas to my heart :D and invested into a new fresh needle. Also got me an amplifier (retro) and now all system is running.

Nice to play all old vinyls again. Have a few special records, never found in the CD format.
 
I bought myself a third turntable (Pioneer PL-720, sold as spare parts) last week (still awaiting it's arrival), vinyl gets to you, makes you want more... o_O
 
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