Hooking up a hifi to a turntable

[lee712014]

Hi everyone,

Im new to vinyl so please bare with my noobishness. So i have a pioneer HM11 hifi and and i dusted off a pioneer turntable from years gone by, think it was part of a hifi system circa 80's or something (a plx77z realy poor quality). I hooked this up to the hifi using a pre amp my dad had knocking around only a cheap thing a btec £20 richer sounds jobby, anyway it works i have sound but it only plays at about half the volume that my cds do. Im a student i was considering getting a project debut and a project £50 pre amp for christmas and was wondering before i buy it all would it increase my potential volume output and quality? i have it hooked up to a hifi for space reasons as i live in halls.

Thanks

 

[Deleted member 108165]

I've recently got back into vinyl again myself with a project debut carbon tt; the volume difference between vinyl - cd playback on my system is/was similar to what you have found with yours so nothing to worry about there. Can't offer you much advice about the rest as I'm a turntable noob myself and my amp has an internal phono stage fitted as standard. I'm sure there will be others along soon who can help you here.

 

[lee712014]

Hmmm maybe it's normal seems as though vinyl has a much weaker signal hence the need for a pre amp. I suppose i could buy a seperate amp, i was looking at a pioneer a10 to go with my hifi but its another expenditure and more space requirement which i cant really afford haha. Yeah your right maybe some others may know more about this..

 

[lee712014]

A seperate amp with a volume control that is

 

[Al ears]

If your TT has been hanging around for a long time I would suggest you buy a new stylus:-

http://www.stylusplus.co.uk/pioneer-plx77z-record-player-stylus-8238-p.asp

Then I would spend your money on a decent moving magnet phono preamp (from the likes of Project etc) to replace that cheapo one which has probably got a very low output voltage.

 

[lee712014]

Hey thanks man that woud definitely be the cheaper option. I might purchase a new stylus and a decent pre amp see if that helps then save for a decent tt if it does!

 

[Al ears]

Hey thanks man that woud definitely be the cheaper option. I might purchase a new stylus and a decent pre amp see if that helps then save for a decent tt if it does!

No problem. Sometimes better to make the smaller / cheaper adjustments rather than jump in with both feet. You may find it makes little difference (although I think not) but anyway the stylus assembly probably could do with re-newing in any case. If the preamp does not solve the problem then you can always sell it on without losing to much cash in the process.