phono hookups

[gwestwood]

<font color='#000000'>Can a turntable be hooked up to a receiver that as no turntable hook ups.Is there something on the market that will accomadate the magnetic cartrige.</font>

[av_phile]

<font color='#000000'>A turntable cartridge requires a phono preamp for equalization and some voltage gain to drive the receiver's line level input. You can ofcourse still try to connect it to a CD/Tape/Aux input. &nbsp;But you won't hear anything that's worth listening. &nbsp;

There are separate phono preamps out there but are almost nill, if not very expensive. &nbsp;Some tube phono preamps also exist in speciality AV stores but could cost more than the equivalent of an entire integrated or receiver. &nbsp;Or you could try the pre-owed stuff. &nbsp;You may want to google search the topic on phono preamp. &nbsp;Just my 2 cents.</font>

[Yamahaluver]

<font color='#0000FF'>Radio Shack and Shure both make inexpensive phono pre amps for this exact purpose and if you are not into extremes, then these two units are well under $100 and would sserve your purpose.</font>