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No sound from speakers

Hi, I recently moved house and left my old speakers behind. I kept my turntable (a pioneer PL-120-II) and amp (and old Cyrus Integrated Stereo Amplifier) which I had used together for a number of years and had worked perfectly fine. A friend of mine gave me some speakers to use which are Tannoy mercury mx3. I have connected everything up and, in theory it should work fine. However, the speakers won't produce any sound. After messing around with the settings a little I managed to get very faint and poor quality sound from the top parts of one speaker but no luck otherwise. 

Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be wrong? It seems unlikely that anything has broken since I very carefully transported it all.
eveboo221
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james_edward
119 posts
 
Is it a Cyrus 1? I haven’t a clue as to your knowledge level, but go with simple first. Check, then double check, that the inputs are where you think they are.
Then make sure the ‘Listen’ selector knob is choosing the input you want. It sounds like the faint sound you are getting might just be crosstalk between inputs. 
The same check then double check also goes for speaker wires.
Good luck.

eveboo221 OP
4 posts
 
Thanks for the response! I know lots about records but not so much about the equipment. It is a Cyrus one, any idea which listen setting it should be on for a turntable?
mzkmxcv
777 posts
 
First, test that the speakers work. Unplug them from the amp and get a AA battery, and press the negative wire to the negative (flat bottom) of the battery and brush  positive wire to positive (nub) of the battery, you should get a pop sound and the woofer should move. 
 
Secone, make sure you are using the right input selection and your inputs are in the correct input slot.
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gbryant
83 posts
 
Phono preamp?
eveboo221 OP
4 posts
 
Since the amp has a phono input I assumed the preamp was already built in?
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kalali
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At the risk of stating the obvious, if your speakers sounded fine with the turntable connected to the phono input of your (integrated) amp, then it does have a built-in phono preamp. 
eveboo221 OP
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I've checked all the connections and, as pointed out by @kalali there must be a preamp. The only issue I can think of could be with the wires connecting the amp to the speakers since I bought those new to connect them.
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twoleftears
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Have you heard the speakers working?  I presume they were transported.  Sounds to me as if something (more than one thing) got jarred very badly loose.
eveboo221 OP
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It could be that @twoleftears but I find it pretty unlikely that both managed to get damaged beyond working since they should function separately. 
james_edward
119 posts
 
Turntable has to be plugged into the phono input on the back, then use ‘phono’ in listen mode. If the turntable is plugged in anywhere else in back, that would also produce a faint sound at best.

james_edward
119 posts
 
Is turntable connected to phono input? Is ‘listen’ selector in phono position? If turntable is connected to anything other than phono on the back, you will only get a faint sound.
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twoleftears
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Surely there should be faint sounds coming from *both* speakers. That’s the detail that I don’t get.  Perhaps you actually have two problems.
pratorious
126 posts
 
Do you have the original jumper plates or other jumper cables with the speaker terminals? Perhaps your friend was bi-wiring the speakers and removed the jumper plates from the terminals?
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imhififan
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Could be the turntable or the Amp, can you use a different source like a DVD/CD player for testing?

As pratorious suggested, make sure the jumper plates are in place.

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