my beautiful table isn't behaving after our move


i am the happy owner of a sonographie sg-3 turntable w/grado cartridge and a luxman amp r-3045. oh and some niles indoor/outdoor speakers. normally i use the system to listen to 2 things: digital downloads/movies and vinyl. my usual setup is monster ipod cable into the aux, phono cables into phono, and it's all fine. but now, the phono seems like it's just not connecting. i can "hear" the music coming from the player (it spins, seems balanced, needle makes contact, faint sounds coming forth) but it's not getting through to the speakers somehow.

anyone want to help this newbie out? i feel like the solution is right in front of me but i keep going around in circles.

my materials to work with are:
radioshack a/v selector
a spare LR-to-LR cable

-alana
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Showing 1 response by jameswei

I agree that all the cable connections should be verified, especially the phono cables where they plug into the receiver -- make sure they are plugged into the appropriate sockets.

The only other thing I would check is the "Monitor" button on the receiver. It should be out, not in. I believe this button, when in, serves to play whatever is plugged in to the "Aux" sockets. In the old days this would have been a tape player whose output could be monitored by using this button. (This way, you could have played a record with your source selector knob turned to phono mm or mc, and you could check to see how well it had been recorded on the tape by pressing the monitor button.) Since your iPod is plugged into the Aux inputs, it would appear to be working when the Monitor button is pushed in while the turntable would appear not to be working.

The alternative is that something was broken during the move, and you need to get a repairman inside your component(s). Good luck.