Hey y'all,
I am setting up an old Technics turntable and unable to get music to come out of the darn thing. I have my turntable, with RCA cables running into a pre-amp, and that pre-amp with RCA cables running into an amp. The amp has speaker wire running from the back into a pair of un-powered speakers. I twisted the speaker wire and tucked it into the tabs on the back of the amp. On the speaker end, I inserted the wire into two pairs of banana plugs and stuck those in the speakers. The polarity should be correct, but the banana plugs are girthy and only go about halfway into the respective speaker inputs.
When I try to play vinyl, the speakers emit fuzzy distortion noises, so the electricity is getting from the turntable to the speakers. But no music plays. All you can hear is the needle running through the grooves and the soft sound of unamplified music from the table.
The pre-amp, amp & speakers are new. The only causes for concern that I can pinpoint are:
(1) Something wrong with the table / cartridge, where the phono signals aren't reaching the pre-amp.
(2) The fact that the banana plugs only go about halfway into the speaker inputs.
Any suggestions / advice would be appreciated.