Traditional turntable help and advice needed

Norman_Castle

Would allow me to treat myself so a decent home cinema system for shared purpose

If the home cinema system has phono imputs. Turntable to pre amp to phono imputs saves having the tv switched on.

googler

FOXGLOVE wrote: »

No more than about £30-40, second hand. Not sure if I can get a new one at that price.

For the TT AND the Phono Amp?

What did you have before you got rid of your previous kit?

FOXGLOVE_2

googler wrote: »

For the TT AND the Phono Amp?

What did you have before you got rid of your previous kit?

No, I meant for just the turntable but have just bought one on eBay for just over £30. Planning on getting one of those pre-amps, and maaaaaybe a home cinema kit. If not some bookshelf speakers.

The set up I had before was a big monster AIWA midi hifi with turntable, the turntable packed in. My other half had a pretty good kit of separates so was using that when I moved in here but she sold some off after the amp packed in.

I have a little CD system in the kitchen for when I'm cooking and generally use Spotify connected to tv with HDMI when at home - the only reason I'd be looking at home cinema kit. I'm not a big movie fan and don't have or want Blu-Ray. Hence all I really need is the turntable so I can get the vinyl out again.

One further question I have is...

The little pre-amp allows me to connect speakers to it. But having looked around, the connections on speaker cable doesn't look compatible, do I have to get speakers or kit that has the red/white plug in things?

Speakers I've used in the past are ones that have a red wire and black wire that is exposed and kind of pushes into a little hole and then clamped in place.

Sorry... I don't know the correct words.

Norman_Castle

The little pre-amp allows me to connect speakers to it.

Nope. The phono output from a turntable is much lower than the output from other items which is why you need a pre amp. The pre amp amplifies the signal to the same level as other phono outputs. You still need to connect it to an amplifier or line in on a tv or similar.

FOXGLOVE_2

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Nope. The phono output from a turntable is much lower than the output from other items which is why you need a pre amp. The pre amp amplifies the signal to the same level as other phono outputs. You still need to connect it to an amplifier or line in on a tv or similar.

Yeah after some research I discovered this so opted for the turntable, integrated amp and set of bookshelf speakers. Long term it'll allow me to add separates again.

And now I have something to spend all my time and money on.