Turntable Advice for cheapskate

[royphil345]

Yes, the switch is to bypass the built-in preamp. Lo-Fi is using his in the bypassed mode and using the built-in preamp in his receiver instead. Many receivers don't have phono inputs these days, hence the need for a preamp...

Everything is probably grounded to the grounds on the turntable's interconnects. A separate ground wire would generally end up attached to the same metal surface the ground portions of the RCA jacks make contact with anyway. This will work fine with 99% of equipment.

Using an outboard phono stage should improve the sound if it's high enough quality. A "cheapie" may sound the same or even worse.

[royphil345]

The Baerwald protractor on this page (first on page) agrees exactly with the results using the Technics alignment tool on my table.

I wanted to recommend this one instead of the Technics tool which will probably work with your table... but you never know... The only downloadable protractor I could find then was different. Looked more like the Geo-Disc that didn't work right with my Technics. Just found this page now...

http://www.vinylengine.com/manuals_t...tractors.shtml

You just work with it until the cartridge lines up with the lines on the protractor no matter which of the two dots the needle is set down on.

[Lo-Fi]

Cool, I'll give it a try

[jrhymeammo]

If you feel like you need to replace the stylus, you can always get a Green for about $30. Honestly, the difference between Green and Silver is VERY minimal... Maybe the Green sounds too good as long as it works with TTs.