"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Serge Auckland wrote:
Best way is to build the cartridge pre-amp into the deck and feed to
the main preamp at a sensible level and impedance. The pickup is one
of those rare things where the cable characteristics can noticeably
effect the sound.

Agreed. That's what I did with my Linn (Yes, I did succumb in 1976), and
came out at line level, balanced. My current AEG and EMT turntables
have the pre-amp built-in and exit at high level, balanced.

I didn't bother with balanced since raising the level and providing a low
impedance send was perfectly fine for the cable run involved. Using
phonos. ;-)

--
*24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ... coincidence? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Yes, my Linn was overkill, but I was very young at the time, and as I was
designing broadcast equipment which was all balanced, I had to have at home
what I was doing at work. Anyway, my cables runs were all veeerrrry long,
one came to almost a metre.....

My current AEG and EMT turntables have fully floating transformer balanced
outputs, so I've just taken these to the unbalanced inputs of my pre-amp,
with zero problems.

S.
--
http://audiopages.googlepages.com