I owned a Fisher 500C for a year, and enjoyed it a great deal.
(The following is recycled material from two years ago when I owned the Fisher. It is posted at www.audioasylum.com in the vintage asylum. There are some Fisher experts there, and lots of good info in the archives.)
"A few days ago someone asked how many line level inputs a Fisher 500C can handle. The answer is two.
I have a cd recorder that I connect to the tape in and tape out on the fisher. Today, I hooked up a spare tuner I have into the Fisher's AUX input. The tuner plays with the selector switch on tape. The cd player plays via the tape monitor.
An odd thing with the CD recorder is that if it is not powered on while listening to phono or FM, then the sound is very garbled. You can imagine the grief I went through before making that discovery! "
So, hook up the cd player to tape mon (definitely not tape out!), and the phono preamp into aux. You can listen to CD player via the tape monitor regardless of the position of the input selector, and to phono with the selector on tape - aux and the tape monitor off. Just make sure to leave your CD player on if the sound is garbled when listening to FM or phono.
(The following is recycled material from two years ago when I owned the Fisher. It is posted at www.audioasylum.com in the vintage asylum. There are some Fisher experts there, and lots of good info in the archives.)
"A few days ago someone asked how many line level inputs a Fisher 500C can handle. The answer is two.
I have a cd recorder that I connect to the tape in and tape out on the fisher. Today, I hooked up a spare tuner I have into the Fisher's AUX input. The tuner plays with the selector switch on tape. The cd player plays via the tape monitor.
An odd thing with the CD recorder is that if it is not powered on while listening to phono or FM, then the sound is very garbled. You can imagine the grief I went through before making that discovery! "
So, hook up the cd player to tape mon (definitely not tape out!), and the phono preamp into aux. You can listen to CD player via the tape monitor regardless of the position of the input selector, and to phono with the selector on tape - aux and the tape monitor off. Just make sure to leave your CD player on if the sound is garbled when listening to FM or phono.