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I’m quite new to the audiophile realm and the amount of knowledge you guys have is truly admirable. It’s precisely why I decided to start a thread, I want to exercise as much restraint as possible when considering purchasing a phono preamp or whatever is required in order to utilize my current setup when attempting to play vinyls.
So I’ll paint a picture and you guys can give me advice/tell me how wrong I am for thinking this is the way it should be done and we can go from there.
I have a pair of HD6xx’s and a Topping D90 with a bottlehead crack I built, along with it’s speedball upgrade.
So this christmas I received the SL-1200MK7, some vinyls that I hope to be able to listen to on my setup without a hiccup, and a Topping A90.
So my current setup is:
usb out from pc->usb in on D90->rca outs on D90->rca ins on bottlehead crack->hd6xx
I have much more to learn in the art of turntables but so far I know that, since there is no internal preamp in the turntable(which is honestly an advantage since I’ve heard some pretty bad things about them in the previous iterations), I will need a solid phono preamp.
I recently learned that phono preamps are required when it comes to turntables because when I tried to go from :
SL-1200MK7 rca outs directly to->rca ins on A90 ,
The audio was way too quiet even maxxed out. The next thing I tried was piping the rca outs from the A90 to the rca ins on the bottlehead.
Which, sounded a little louder but still definitely lacked that much needed bassy punch since I could max them both out with little change.
I then experimented and thought maybe the A90 was nerfing the signal somehow so I went directly from the MK7 to the bottlehead, cutting out the A90. This was similar to just using the A90 in that I could max out the volume no problem and still feel there was room for more loudness.
Mind you, this is all before I discovered what a phono preamp was, and now that I do know what they are used for, I’m stressing over the prospect of breaking the bank just to get that desirable loudness out of the hd6xxs.
Apologies, I didn’t know how else to figure this out other than googling for hours on end. And even then, most who have turntables have a completely different setups and some part of me desperately hopes theres a way that I can still use the bottlehead in conjunction with a preamp.
Best thing I have found so far is this thread on the forum which gives plenty of suggestions, but I would just like to hear what someone has to say given the context of my situation without pulling the trigger on some random preamp. Thank you.
So I’ll paint a picture and you guys can give me advice/tell me how wrong I am for thinking this is the way it should be done and we can go from there.
I have a pair of HD6xx’s and a Topping D90 with a bottlehead crack I built, along with it’s speedball upgrade.
So this christmas I received the SL-1200MK7, some vinyls that I hope to be able to listen to on my setup without a hiccup, and a Topping A90.
So my current setup is:
usb out from pc->usb in on D90->rca outs on D90->rca ins on bottlehead crack->hd6xx
I have much more to learn in the art of turntables but so far I know that, since there is no internal preamp in the turntable(which is honestly an advantage since I’ve heard some pretty bad things about them in the previous iterations), I will need a solid phono preamp.
I recently learned that phono preamps are required when it comes to turntables because when I tried to go from :
SL-1200MK7 rca outs directly to->rca ins on A90 ,
The audio was way too quiet even maxxed out. The next thing I tried was piping the rca outs from the A90 to the rca ins on the bottlehead.
Which, sounded a little louder but still definitely lacked that much needed bassy punch since I could max them both out with little change.
I then experimented and thought maybe the A90 was nerfing the signal somehow so I went directly from the MK7 to the bottlehead, cutting out the A90. This was similar to just using the A90 in that I could max out the volume no problem and still feel there was room for more loudness.
Mind you, this is all before I discovered what a phono preamp was, and now that I do know what they are used for, I’m stressing over the prospect of breaking the bank just to get that desirable loudness out of the hd6xxs.
Apologies, I didn’t know how else to figure this out other than googling for hours on end. And even then, most who have turntables have a completely different setups and some part of me desperately hopes theres a way that I can still use the bottlehead in conjunction with a preamp.
Best thing I have found so far is this thread on the forum which gives plenty of suggestions, but I would just like to hear what someone has to say given the context of my situation without pulling the trigger on some random preamp. Thank you.
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