On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:14:47 +0000, Sumatriptan wrote:

On 16/02/2015 18:06, Eiron wrote:
On 16/02/2015 17:49, Java Jive wrote:
If by phone input you mean one with RIAA bias-correction, then why not
just take the line out of that amp to your soundcard instead. That's
what I did, the results were very acceptable, and I reckoned it was a
lot easier than faffing around with a preamp, and trying to avoid it
introducing hum that I'd already spent so many hours trying to remove.

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:47:58 +0000, Sumatriptan
wrote:

I do have an ancient amplifier with mm phono input (anyone remember
the Texan amp kit?)


Is the Texan phono input stage good enough? I doubt it.


It is RIAA but when I powered my Texan up a few years ago it had some
hum so I'm going to have to 'faff around' to fix it if I use it. Here's
a schematic:

http://www.angelfire.com/sd/paulkemble/sound8h.html

Love this, 'covering 5Hz--500kHz'

The line out is simply a potential divider across the speaker output. I
might try it as per Java Jive's suggestion. Haven't even got the tt yet
so nothing is definite atm.

That's a phones output. There isn't a line output. I'd try taking an
output from pin 6 of IC1 via a resistor - I'd experiment around 4.7k to
see what sounds ok. Ideally you should use a high input impedance buffer
but you might not be wanting to do that (although a cheap dual op-amp
would do it nicely).