Here is my situation. I want to be able to listen to vinyl again. My "preamp" right now is an old Lexicon CP-3, with no phono input.

I am going to do one of two things, buy a decent used preamp or a nice phono preamp, to run it into my Lexicon.

Right now I'm looking at a preamp who's phono section specs are as listed:

Input impredance( R and C):
MM/MC 47Kohms + 200 pF

Input sensitivity:
ref. 0.5V 1.5mV

Signal/Noise ratio (A-weighted with cartridge connected):
MM 78 dB ref. 0.5mV
MC 76 dB ref. 0.5mV

THD (20Hz-20kHz) and IM dist.:
<0.02%

RIAA response accuracy:
+ or - 0.5dB 20Hz-20kHz
+ or - 0.5dB 50Hz-20kHz (I dont know why they have this on top of the other one??)
- 0.5dB at 20Hz



It is either that, or another preamp(a Rotel I dont have the specs on), or an outboard phono preamp...