I just received a preamp I bought a week ago, and it sounds fabulous, but the gain is very low specially when playing vinyl, I use an MC cartridge, and the volume knob is all the way up, what can I do remedy this situation?
Dear Elizabeth, There are several alternative explanations for the OPs reported observation. That's "plain as day" to me. Anyway his "remedy" is "almost found". Perhaps he poured some snake oil on his phono stage.
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If it is a matter of not enough gain, then there is another alternative to a SUT or higher output cart. Pre-pre-amp also known as headamp, which would go between cart and phono stage.
Details will help here. How much gain does the phono stage have? What is the output of your MC (not clear if it is HOMC or LOMC from your post)? Do you have this gain problem with any non-phono input?
You could also buy an external phono stage that can provide the gain you need if you don't want to cahnge carts or get into SUTs.
Agree with Onhwy61 and Jmcgrogan2. It sounds like you may not have enough gain in your MC stage to properly amplify the signal from your cartridge, but we'd need to know how much gain you have in the phono stage and the output of the cartridge. An SUT (which I have used in the past and found very effective, but a bit pricey) or a higher output cartridge may be in order.
Is it possible that you are running a low output MC into a MM or low gain phono stage? If so, you may need to use a Step Up Transformer (SUT) for your phono.
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