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dumb question...I apologize

I am setting up a backup system in vacation home. I already have an amp (bryston 4bsst)and a line stage preamp. I want to incorporate my turntable to take advantage of my 3000+LPs....so....if I purchase a phono pre amp, can I feed it's output into the line stage, which I want to use for CD input and tuner input, or will the gain be too high, and it's output should go directly into the amp? Do I need to purchase another pre with a phono stage? (MM)

Home system, needs no help: McIntosh 402, ML 390 and 380s, REL Stadium III sub, Martin Logans, Magnum Dynalab, MIT cables and interconnects. Quite lovely, actually.

I should know the answer to this, but it has been so long since I have used a 'table....

Your input is most appreciated.

thanks

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hodu
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While there are ways to make this unimaginably complicated, here's a straightforward answer to get things going: You'd plug the RCAs from the turntable into the inputs of your external phono stage of choice, and then plug the outputs from that into one of the line inputs in your preamp. And you'll be good to go. With that many albums, I'm betting you'll have lots of fun with this.
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derbim OP
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ok....that is helpful. Any gain issues to deal with or will the pre look at this input as just another ? I think I am remembering all of this. Jeez....LPs.....turntable. Am I too old for this?
paulfolbrecht
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Derbim, what you're proposing is exactly how stand-alone phono stages are designed to work. A phono pre bumps up to 'line' voltage suitable for a line pre-amp, just like, say, a CDP.

Almost none of them have a vol control anyway so you could not go direct to amp.
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