If I remember correctly, having attached a turntable to my system without a "phono preamp", it required the use of a microphone input (not a line input) to achieve the necessary gain, before sending that signal on to an equalization stage for RIAA.
+40dB or thereabouts would likely be required, and neither of my miniDSP boxes include a slider that goes past +12db.
Maybe you can do it with biquads, I haven't tried.
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First post below says a typical MM cart outputs a maximum of 4 to 5 millivolts.
Take that to one volt max, a nice round workable number,
Using 0.0045V as an average, a gain of 46.93dB would do it, or 222 times the voltage.
I recently upgraded the Cartridge on my Rega P3 to a Nagaoka MP-110 that has a 5mV output voltage I thought I would get much higher volume with the MP-110 but still I’m getting a low volume on my amp. Usually when playing digital when I set volume about 60 is really loud and with the phono I...
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