[sdiy] OT: Velleman RIAA Phono Preamp Kit

[Metzger, Michael A]

Hi Scott,
There have been a lot of phono pre projects over at www.diyaudio.com. One that a
lot of people liked was called El Cheapo (I think). Not sure if its RIAA.

BTW, you should've seen the puzzled look on my daughter's face the first time
she saw a LP!

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Scott Gravenhorst
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 8:27 AM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] OT: Velleman RIAA Phono Preamp Kit


music.maker at gte.net wrote:
>Sorry for the somewhat off-topic question, it's DIY at least...
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>Anyway, I have a Teac turntable that I want to use to transfer vinyl
>phonographic records to CD.  I've done this before with a friend's
>extremely cheap portable turntable (with built in speaker as well as RCA
>jacks!), but when I try to hook the Teac turntable up, I get nothing.  I
>have only one stereo receiver that has phono inputs and if it's preamp
>still worked, I'd use it.  So I can't even test the turntable on something
>it ought to work with.  I'm thinking that I need a phono preamp.

Addendum: I'm trying to connect the turntable to my soundcard.  I get nothing on
line-in
and very faint signal in mic-in.


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>1) Do you think I'm right about the need for a preamp (I have no idea what
>kind of needle cartridge is in it, it's actually my wife's turntable)?
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>2) Will the Velleman kit work well enough (sound as good or better than the
>cheapy crappy thing I used before that was at least adequate sounding)?
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>3) Where do people get Velleman kits online (USA)?
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>Thank you all for your sage advice...
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