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Black Phono Pre-amplifier with Built-in RIAA Equalisation |  | Brand: Electrovision
Category: CE
Buy New: £10.28
as of 5/9/2010 06:38 EST details
New (5) from £10.28
Seller: DFB Warehouse Ltd
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 740
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 5.9 x 2
MPN: A098M
EAN: 5021196123095
ASIN: B000NJ4KPO
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This device allows a turntable to be connected to a Hi-Fi system which does not have a phono input. It has RIAA equalisation built-in, resulting in a perfectly balanced signal.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 A better way to digitize your vinyl records August 24, 2008
I. T. Waugh (Cheshire UK)
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
There are lots of turntables available these days to convert your vinyl to MP3 or other digital music forms, but most of them look cheap and plasticky. I have a Dual CS505 from 1982, and it cost more back then than most of the modern computer interface types do today. So, why spend about £80 when you probably already have a sound card, audio manipulating software and a good turntable. Get this phono pre-amp for less than a tenner,and end up with better results!
The unit I received said "Commtel" rather than Eagle, but was otherwise identical to the photo. It takes a 9 volt power supply to run it, either a PP3 inserted in a compartment in the bottom, or an AC adaptor supplying 9 volts to a "centre terminal positive" plug. There's a small on-off switch on the back, to save battery life. So, what's the switch on the top for? Well, look at the back, and you'll see 3 pairs of phono sockets (gold plated in appearance!) One pair is the turntable in (Moving magnet cartridges, not moving coil!) and one pair the output to your amplifier (you can use it with any amplifier with line in sockets, as well as computers). The third pair are "line in" so, whatever you used to have plugged into the device you are now feeding this amp into can be plugged into this, and selected instead of the turntable input, using that big switch on top.
Ther's a ground terminal for turntables needing one (mine does) so it's all well thought out. The sound quality is excellent, I've already made a couple of CD's from 2 of my albums, and they sound very good. You can also load the newly digitized audio into your portable digital music device. One reason I didn't want an MP3 device was that I have a Sony WALKMAN, which has Sony's superior ATRAC file compression, rather than MP3 as used by iPod and the like, so this gives my control over how I handle the audio files, all it does is feed the sound at line level into my soundcard, what I do with it then is my choice, not the turntables.
perfect September 17, 2008
P. Gazzard
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this to link my Pioneer record deck to my Home PC to copy my old vinyl records.
It works superbly. rating? 100%
Great value and it works! December 17, 2009
slowpack (England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was looking for a way to get an amplifier and speakers so I could use my vinyl turntable and also to digitise. The answer was simple, I bought the Commtel phono preamp at the knock-down price, coupled it to the turntable and my PURE Evoke TX2 DAB radio and away it went. Good sound and the PURE links to the PC. Naively, I forgot that the preamp would need a power supply but I used a PP3 battery until I got a mains powered one from Maplin. This has worked out to be a good way to convert from vinyl to digital without buying one of the many dedicated units. Incidentally, the Evoke TX2 is available at low cost just now and it is a decent DAB radio (only fault from my poit of view is too few presets).
Excellent product! November 19, 2009
A. Boyes (Wales, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After trying out a couple of other preamps with little success, I decided to give this a go and really wish I'd bought this first instead of wasting money on other preamps.
As other reviews have stated, this is great for hooking up to a PC to convert your vinyl collection but it's even better just listening to records with this connected to a hi-fi or amp. The sound quality is superb as the EQ is well balanced and the signal is strong and clear. It certainly helps to have a good quality amp but I got great sound running through a boom box aswell.
A great thing with this preamp is that you can connect your turntable's ground wire to it, cutting out horrible buzzing and hum.
Out of the few preamps I've bought, this is by far the cheapest and by far the best.
10 out of 10. March 14, 2009
Patrick Spens.
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this to connect my technics turntable to my laptop , like the previous reviewer mine is a Commtel, just fitted a pp3 battery and it works well, I was very happy with the delivery too, mine arrived in two days!
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