Equipment Hook Up

[KarenPowell]

<font color='#000000'>Here is the situation - We have purchased some used *equipment - we have a cassette deck (AKAI) and a turntable (Kenwood) and we have a set of speakers. *we purchased a new stereo turner/receiver to run this equipment through - we were told we could run our turntable through the CD Jack *since it has no turntable jack - we can hear the tape fine but the turntable volume remains low. *Were we misinformed about being able to run it through the cd jack or what do we need here?? *My ultimate goal is to record some old lps onto cds by using my computer. *Any help or assitance would be greatly appreciated</font>

[James Sponaugle]

<font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>KarenPowell : Here is the situation - We have purchased some used *equipment - we have a cassette deck (AKAI) and a turntable (Kenwood) and we have a set of speakers. *we purchased a new stereo turner/receiver to run this equipment through - we were told we could run our turntable through the CD Jack *since it has no turntable jack - we can hear the tape fine but the turntable volume remains low. *Were we misinformed about being able to run it through the cd jack or ...
Unfortunately, you were misinformed about being able to hook a turntable up to a CD jack. *The CD jack is a &quot;line level&quot; input. *Turntables produce a much lower level signal, and must be amplified greatly by the receiver. *I haven't run a turntable in a long time, so I'm not really up on the state of the art with those. *It's possible you can get some kind of external amplifier to go from the phono level signal to line level, then run that to your receiver. *Let's see... doing a quick search, here is one such device:

http://www.topdjgear.com/rane-ps-1.html

It's $168.00. *I'm not sure if that's more than you're willing to spend or not. *Someone more knowlegable on current products in this area can probably steer you toward a better/cheaper solution.

-James

EDIT: Oh, one more thing; *Since your goal is to record the LP to your computer, you probably don't really need the receiver (unless you've got that for other reasons as well). *Most likely, your sound card has a line level input on it. *If you get the turntable signal converted to line level, you can just hook it straight to your sound card and record. *Most sound cards have a 1/8&quot; stereo line level input, so you'd need a cable to go from that to the RCA style jacks on the phono pre-amp.</font>