Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: My damn (new) cartridge don`t work! Was it something that I said? Message-ID: <1371@hound.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:48:21 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1371 Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:48:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 03:32:18 EDT References: <3204@teklabs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 [] Sounds like you have put 20 gallons of high-test in the exhaust pipe and are cursing the car. You mention as an aside that you didn't have a preamp. Did you really mean that, or did you mean you had no separate preamp? Sounds like your previous cartridge might have been a ceramic or crystal type which have high output and require no special equalization. If you plug magnetic cartridge into that input you will get 1) no bass and 2) little signal either. It will tend to sound like a weak screetch. I know of no high quality phono that still uses a ceramic pickup. You need a magnetic cartreidge preamp. Radio Shack sells them, among other places. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com