Quote Originally Posted by jayrayban
I just picked up a Technics SLB-20. The level is very low on my current receiver; however, I understand that it is because the receiver does not have a built in preamp to bring the level up. I do have another receiver elsewhere that says I will need a phono pre-amp if the record player uses a moving coil cartridge. I cannot find anywhere what type of cartirdge the SLB-20 uses. The closest thing I found was that it uses a VM cartridge, and I do not know what VM stands for. Can someone please help me out? Thanks so much.

You probably have a moving magnet phono cartridge which will work well with the other receiver. That turntable was supplied with a moving magnet cartridge. If your older receiver with the phono inputs has a preamp out you can use the phono stage only with your newer receiver. Plug the turntable into the phono inputs and then preamp out to one of the inputs in your new receiver.