New portable record player

[Mel99]

Hello

so I got a new portable Vinyl record player as a gift, it’s an Akai retro.

I can’t seem to get any proper sound when playing a record. I can hear the music very faintly. When I’ve connected my phone via the audio in cable it plays fine I can hear it ok can turn it up loud and the same if I connect via Bluetooth.

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong or if I am doing anything wrong.

can anyone give any advice?
Thanks

 

[viorelc]

Help us help you. Does the player have an integrated amp, or preamp, or it outputs Phono signal? How do you connect it, to what, using what type of connectors, in which type of input? Hope this makes sense.

One fairly typical setup is:
- record player has a PHONO output (RCA cable or RCA connectors), be aware that’s not LINE level output that you can connect directly into an amplifier via RCA.
- Phono preamplifier, which takes PHONO signal, applies an RIAA frequency correction and amplifies it to the LINE level (PHONO level is too low for a regular amp to handle). Some record players have Phono preamplifiers included, and have either a LINE level output, or have both LINE and PHONO outputs. If that’s the case, the LINE output can be connected with a regular input of an amplifier.
- amplifier. Some include an input for Phono, which does both the RIAA correction and signal amplification to Line level.

Hope this helps.


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[evelyco]

I had a portable record player when I was a child, and I remember that the sound quality was awful. But having it developed the true love for vinyl records, so now I have a big collection of genuine albums of such great music bands like Queen, Nirvana, NWA, AC/DC, Metallica, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and the legendary Led Zeppelin. Also, I have a professional record player. I found out about it on toprecordplayers.com and compared it to my old portable record player, the music sound like heaven from it.

 

[fmw]

It sounds like you are trying to use your phone as an output device for the record player. Your phone doesn't have a proper phono preamp, something required to get the tiny signal of the phono cartridge up to line level and RIAA equaliation to reproduce the music. There are outboard phono preamps available that will solve your problem. If you are trying to get it to play through your home audio system your receiver or preamp may not have a phono stage either. My guess is you need one more piece of gear.