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Originally Posted by imcarthur View Post
Not if you walk into a real hifi store. Vinyl is still alive & well in a small niche way.

The signal from a standard phono cartridge must go through a phono preamp before you can use it to record. It must be processed with a reverse RIAA curve & then amplified before it has the same equalization & voltage that a normal hifi input (CD, tape etc) has. Those RS units will probably do this - albeit poorly.

Ian
Oh, I agree. I looked for a turntable a few years ago and it seemed that the vast majority of what was available was designed without the preamp and with a USB output. I had to look to find one with the preamp (I had specifically bought a 2-channel receiver with phono inputs)...
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