I HAD an older receiver that had my old Technics SL-D2 turntable connected to it (had the phono in jacks and all)
With one of the amps in the receiver acting flaky, I bought a new Pioneer 5.1 home theater receiver. I was planning on connecting the turntable to one of the CD in jacks.
So...bought a preamp. connected it up. put an LP on...could hear it from the arm...but not from the speakers.
So, I took the preamp and turntable off, connected it to the older receiver, got lucky - both of the amps were working so I could hear the record out of both speakers. I then connected the turntable to the preamp and connected the preamp to the older receiver's tape in jacks. set it up for that deck, put the record on, no problem, the receiver put it on through.
Connected the DVD player to the CD player jacks on the new Pioneer. Put in a CD and played it. Again, no problem.
So, is it just that I may not have a preamp with enough power to drive the voltage for the new receiver...bet enough to get it to the level for the old one's tape player...
Or is there something I am missing? I am new to this but not new to troubleshooting.