Thanks. I bought it for $220. I checked the clearances with my hand and everything looked very solid despite the use I am sure it has had, it plays records perfectly and everything works. I will spend around $160 for someone to do a complete clean, lubing and tuning, polish the arm and weight mechanism, replacing RCA's and fixing the pop-up light, so it will be around $380 in the end, a little more than what I was hoping to spend but I think I will end up with a good TT that will last a long time. It's perhaps within the range where I could get a really good new TT as well, but there's something about having a classic TT made in the 70's, and probably the most iconic TT model ever made that really appeals to me TBH. It's a gorgeous machine.
The cartridge it came with is a Sure M44-7 (imagine what the TT was used for!). I will definitely upgrade down the line, and get something like a Shure M97xE (any feedback?). But I will stick to it for a while.
The speakers are a powered 2.1 set. I don't know the model and I'm not home to check it out, but they look like a Bose Companion set, that right now I am connecting to the TT through a DJ mixer I am borrowing from a friend, that's why I'm looking for a preamp.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
The speakers are powered and I think connecting them to the preamp will work no? Right now they're connected to a dj mixer I'm using for the phono input and I have loud enough sound (sound quality is awful though because the mixer is crappy).It sounds like you are going to need not just a phono preamp, but a line amp and power amp as well.
Is that a preamp? What are the coaxials for? That's really well built actually, and it's really nice the power source is isolated (except the rubber feet that poorly glued haha) but I'm not sure I feel comfortable buying this random device on eBay I know nothing about.
The speakers are powered and I think connecting them to the preamp will work no? Right now they're connected to a dj mixer I'm using for the phono input and I have loud enough sound (sound quality is awful though because the mixer is crappy).
I'm sorry but could you clarify this a little further? Why would I need a line-level preamp? Isn't a typical setup TT -> phono preamp -> powered speakers (or amplifier -> passive speakers)?I don't know your particular speakers, but I don't know of any powered speakers that have a line level preamp built-in.
Hmm.. not very much and I don't have the tools to do so as well.Are you handy ? you can build a CNC phono stage for under a hundred dollars. I have one and I think it sounds fantastic but I have little to compare it to. Here is the thread for it
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/in...igh-end-phono-stage-no-expense-spared.371889/
I don't know your particular speakers, but I don't know of any powered speakers that have a line level preamp built-in.
Thanks for the feedback. The speakers only have a TRS balanced input that I intend to connect the preamp to.I have the Pluto. It works great for me. It sounds a bit better than the phono stage in an older Onkyo receiver and noticeably better than the non-USB ART and the phono stage in my late 90s top-of-the-line Kenwood receiver.
Thanks for clarifying.You can run straight from the phono-pre into powered speakers. I do this with a Klipsch set-up on my computer desk.
I'm sorry but could you clarify this a little further? Why would I need a line-level preamp? Isn't a typical setup TT -> phono preamp -> powered speakers (or amplifier -> passive speakers)?
I assumed this to be true, but thanks for clarifying. If I buy a typical receiver on Amazon, one of those generic $150 Sony's on Kenwoods, I would assume they have a line amp as well, so I can connect preamp -> receiver -> passive speakers. Am I right?Most powered speakers have a pre-amp built in, that is the stage with the volume control. There are some powered speakers that take a line level signal from a standard pre-amp using that unit's volume/tone/switching controls. But, for the purposes of our discussion, and in the context of Bose powered speakers, the pre is built in, and would pose no problem in running the signal directly from a phono-pre. Or so I would assume.