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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
127 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.

james_edward
127 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
127 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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