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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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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
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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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