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Recording vinyl onto Marantz CDR 640, Please help

Does anyone out there have experience of Marantz pro CD recorder, ideally a CDR 640?

I have a recently bought a Marantz CDR 640 to record form my turntable (LP12 Lingo/Aro) onto CD. I do not have a manual and was struggling to get to it all connected to receive an analog input. I gave up with two pairs of RCA cables and replaced one pair with XLRs, which luckily I had and I was using to connect my NAD S100 per-amp to my S200 power amp.

I can no get a weak analog signal, but even when the recording level button at the max the recording is very low.

There appears to be others input settings but without the manual I don't have a clue. Either the machine is faulty or there's something I need to adjust.

Any advice would be very, very gratefully received.
clarkeboland
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rlwainwright
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You cannot take the output directly from the turntable and into the CDR. First you must run the output of the turntable into either a preamp (or receiver) which has a Phono input or to a Phono preamplifier. This will raise the output of the phono so that you can then get a loud enough signal to record. Then, take the output of the preamplifier (or receiver) and run this into the CDR. Now you should be able to make your recording...

-RW-
bondmanp
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Rlwainwright is correct. I have been using a Marantz CDR-632 for several years now. If you have any other questions, please post them.
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