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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
eveboo221 OP
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Since the amp has a phono input I assumed the preamp was already built in?
kalali's avatar
kalali
1,977 posts
 
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. 
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