famous beagle
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I bought a vintage Kenwood receiver and turntable at a garage sale a while ago. Until recently, it's always been finicky when playing records. It has two phono inputs, but regardless of which one I plugged into, one side would kind of crap out, and I'd have to tap the top of the receiver to get it to come back on.
This morning, I wanted to test out the AUX input to see if I could run my new Sony TC-530 reel to reel into it, so I just played some music on my phone through it to test it. It worked great. So I decided to put it through the phono inputs just to see what happened.
I know phono is not a line-level device, so I turned the volume all the way down at first. I slowly rolled up the volume and, though the sound was distorted (because of the level mismatch I presume), there was no shorting/crapping going on at all. Both sets of phono inputs seemed to be working fine.
Just for shits, I plugged my turntable back into phono 1, and ... now it seems to be working great, with no crapping out. ????
WTF?
So my question is, could what I did (run a line device through the phono jack) have somehow cleansed an issue or something? Why did it all of the sudden start working? I've played dozens of records before now, always with the same crapping-out-on-one-side result. Now all of the sudden, it's working great. I even tapped the receiver to see if it would trigger a crap-out, and it still worked fine.
Any clue?
Thanks
This morning, I wanted to test out the AUX input to see if I could run my new Sony TC-530 reel to reel into it, so I just played some music on my phone through it to test it. It worked great. So I decided to put it through the phono inputs just to see what happened.
I know phono is not a line-level device, so I turned the volume all the way down at first. I slowly rolled up the volume and, though the sound was distorted (because of the level mismatch I presume), there was no shorting/crapping going on at all. Both sets of phono inputs seemed to be working fine.
Just for shits, I plugged my turntable back into phono 1, and ... now it seems to be working great, with no crapping out. ????
WTF?
So my question is, could what I did (run a line device through the phono jack) have somehow cleansed an issue or something? Why did it all of the sudden start working? I've played dozens of records before now, always with the same crapping-out-on-one-side result. Now all of the sudden, it's working great. I even tapped the receiver to see if it would trigger a crap-out, and it still worked fine.
Any clue?
Thanks