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Originally Posted by imcarthur
A phono preamp does 2 things. It boosts the tiny signal & it applies the RIAA curve to the signal. Both are mandatory for phono playback.
Ian |
^thanks for the RIAA link. Interesting reading. I spin records from time to time on an Akai turntable with a Grado cartridge into my NAD receiver which is old enough to have a proper phono input.
Vinyl is a great medium. I especially appreciate that when you play a record, you usually end up listening to at least the entire side of the record. Its a nicely "digestible" length of time. With digital music its so easy now to skip from song to song (or shuffle play) that it seems one seldom sits down and listens to an extended body of work from a single artist. The LP record sort of forces you to do that, which I find to be a unique and enjoyable quality of that audio delivery mechanism.