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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
4 posts
 
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
116 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
116 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
5,313 posts
 
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
124 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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