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How to connect phono stage?

So, many, perhaps most, power amps accept only one pair of inputs. So if you have a phono preamp and a line stage preamp, do you connect the phono pre into a line in of the phono pre?

I ask because this is what I have ended up doing with my Yaqin 12b tube phono stage/preamp (it has a line in and a MM in, and it sounds, I think, better this way than when I plugged it right into my power amp. Indeed, my preliminary reaction is that it sounds GREAT this way. This despite the fact that is designed to be used as a preamp direct into a power amp (or into an integrated). The other preamp, btw, it a Spectro-Acoustics 87R (I think that's the model).

What say you?
rnm4

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sbank
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If both are linestages w/built-in phono stages, just use whichever one alone sounds better. If you need both together to sound good, perhaps neither has enough gain(quite odd!). If so, I'd sell them both and get one decent phono stage & one decent line stage, that together will provide enough gain. Cheers,
Spencer
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