Hi Mechans,
I've looked through some of the archives. I'm not finding everything I need, or if it's there, it's pretty embedded and hard to find.
To be more specific about my question:
, I have a single tonearm available to me, and it is set up for stereo. I've got two questions:
1) When using the Y adaptor, do you need two Y adaptors, one to sum the L+R channels and one to redistribute them back to L+R outputs?
2) If you definitely don't have a mono cartridge, is it better to buy stereo re-issues of mono LP's?
If I have to use two Y adaptors strapped together (question 1), I might just have blue jeans cable build me something where the blending of L+R occurs internally within the cabling and there are two sets of RCA plugs on either side. I don't suppose that the Y adaptor approach is to only take one channel and then deliver it to two inputs on my preamp, right?
Hopefully someone can chime in. Almarg???
I've looked through some of the archives. I'm not finding everything I need, or if it's there, it's pretty embedded and hard to find.
To be more specific about my question:
, I have a single tonearm available to me, and it is set up for stereo. I've got two questions:
1) When using the Y adaptor, do you need two Y adaptors, one to sum the L+R channels and one to redistribute them back to L+R outputs?
2) If you definitely don't have a mono cartridge, is it better to buy stereo re-issues of mono LP's?
If I have to use two Y adaptors strapped together (question 1), I might just have blue jeans cable build me something where the blending of L+R occurs internally within the cabling and there are two sets of RCA plugs on either side. I don't suppose that the Y adaptor approach is to only take one channel and then deliver it to two inputs on my preamp, right?
Hopefully someone can chime in. Almarg???