I'm hoping anybody has experience with recordplayers (vinyl) and could help me with my problem/question. My dad purchased this USB record player about 2 years ago but never used it. So I decided to fire it up and check my own vinyls on it. It's a Roadster TTL-8744UDJ/B USB record player. Here's 2 pictures of the player, one of them concerning the sound cables (if that's what they are). The problem is I'm a complete newb on the recordplayer subject and stuff. In the instruction manual is says the cable with the red/white plug is a RCA cable. It says I can connect it to either an amplifier or phono-input of mixer. The recordplayer gives sound when the record is playing, but its very low, and I would like to see if I can hook up some speakers to it. I have been able to digitalize the songs on the vinyls into MP3's on my PC, but would like to play them on speakers too while the vinyl is spinning. My question is, is this possible? Do I have to plug the cables > amplifier > speakers, or is there any other way I could hook up a couple of speakers, if at all. Thanks for any help, will most likely go to my local music instruments store to ask aswell. (We also have a very old recordplayer, which I can dig up, but afaik, it has an even different type of cable. I'll try to shoot a couple of pics of it if I can find it).
Yea, from what I've understood, the phonos are from a record payer, and are very low volume. Hook them up to an amp and you've got a usable level to attach speakers to.
Most newer receivers don't have a phono input, so you'll need a phono preamp if you want to get decent (loud) sound out of one. I have one of these and it does the job quite admirably FWIW.
Before you go off and look at pre-amps lets examine the "USB Turntable" description. My German consists of ordering a beer but it appears that on the European mainland it is talked about a lot. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...t=result&cd=1&q=Roadstar+TTL-8744+UDJ&spell=1 Google finds a ton of references to it. IF it is USB then that input could be used as an input to the PC directly. I want a USB turntable for my 1946 Ipod A true USB turntable should work without the red and white RCA plugs. john
those are RCA outputs and they are at what is called line level. I.E the sound is not amplified at all and it's meant to be plugged into a device with an amplifier. IF you have any sort of reciever that has inputs that should work. Same for some self powered speakers. a home theatre system like the cheapy type you can buy at any electronics store will have RCA inputs because that was the defacto standard for things like VCR's and TV's up until very recently (they have an additional yellow cable that carries the video) www.tweakheadz.com give them a try and look around the forum they could answer any question. Personally I use a mixer for all my inputs (like turntables) and then have outs to amplified speakers. I'm not sure if the usb turntable can output sound into both USB and RCA at the same time though
Bear in mind, though, that phono line level is much lower than line level out of, say, a CD player. Unless the turntable is doing some preamplification (highly unlikely), you'll need an amp with a phono stage amplifier. Plugging a phono line into a standard line level input won't provide enough amplification. You either need an amp with a phono input or a pre-amp to amplify the phone output to line level voltages. John, the OP was wanting to connect the turntable to an amp as well as connecting it to his PC with the USB cable.
@ John: I have googled yeah, but as I said, I'm a complete newb and have no knowledge about recordplayers. The player does produce sound, yet it's very VERY low volume, and no way of turning it up unless I have some kind of device in between I guess. BTW: It's dutch, not german xD @ metarinka: Thanks for that, I will have a look into it. I got a 4.1 speakerset (some cheap ass Soundblaster ones) but I guess they won't work that well. @ Flibblebot: Thanks, I'm trying to find out whether or not I can play vinyls WITHOUT hooking it up to my PC (I guess it's a lost cause, since it's an USB recordplayer) and able to play records and hook speakers to em. I found the old recordplayer I was talking about earlier, I'm pretty sure we don't own the manual anymore (could be, but must be hidden somewhere). It's an Aristona 5777. It has a Philips 400 lever and the actual spinning mechanism is of higher quality than the USB one. Here's some pics: As you can it has a power cable (well duh ) and the same tulip plugs as the USB player. They aren't coloured but they do say L (left) and R (right) so I guess I can hook these up to a stereo? The little clip is to ground it I guess? Thanks for any help, I will visit a music shop somewhere this week so I can ask them what the best option would be to make it work.
Best option is to find an old cheap amp with a phono input. Ebay will probably be your friend for this, but you'll have to do more looking. or buy a phono pre-amp and plug it into your existing stereo. Ebay "phono amp" and plenty come up, some for £12, which won't sound amazing but will do the job. If you have an existing stereo of course, as you'll still have to RCA outputs like you do now, but they'll be louder! RwD
You need to plug those cables into either a standard amplifier with a true phono input (most amplifiers from the past 20 years or so won't have this) or a dedicated phono amplifier which would then be connected to the standard amplifier, or your pc soundcard. The phono amp amplifies the output from the record player (actually the cartridge with the needle on it) up to the level you would get from the output of a CD player or any other source. It also applies equalisation, because the way vinyl records are made means that they can't be recorded with the bass and treble you would expect. You shouldn't have to pay much for one on ebay, or you might be able to get one from an electronics store. With this turntable you can probably get away with a really cheap model. If it is a USB turntable, then you should also have a usb socket on it somewhere that you can connect up to your pc, and play it through that directly.
