Lennox TT500 turntable is awful

[Nomen Nescio]

My wife bought one of these, as the old stereogram died.
Plugged it into the AUX inputs of the new sound system
(what does CD/cassette/MP3/radio). But it sounds shite,
like a 78 RPM really poor bandwidth.
Is this something to do with RIAA compensation?

 

[Tim]

My wife bought one of these, as the old stereogram died.
Plugged it into the AUX inputs of the new sound system
(what does CD/cassette/MP3/radio). But it sounds shite,
like a 78 RPM really poor bandwidth.
Is this something to do with RIAA compensation?

Wouldn't be surprised,..you probably need to insert a freq-response
equalising network, Look them up with Google,..if it sounds scratchy, go
for some treble cut [capacitance and resistor *across* pick-up's
output] As to values,..dont have a clue,..suck and see If it sounds
better, and you haqven't lost too much level,..you're home and hosed.

Tim

 

[swanny]

It appears that the Lenoxx TT500 turntable has a ceramic cartridge,
which means that you don't need a preamp or equalisation.

Nonsense.
The source material is eq'd in mastering for vinyl, so you need the
reverse eq to reproduce it. This is what RIAA eq is used for.

The output of the ceramic cartridge is higher than that of the MC/MM
types, so you may need to use an attenuator to attach it to a phono
input. Try a 20dB pad and see if that helps.

 

[Pete]

Nonsense.

The response of a ceramic cartridge approximates the RIAA curve,
provided it has a high impedance load. Fed into a lower impedance load,
bass response will be lost. However, RIAA equalisation is not required,
because that would also affect the high frequency response.

Peter