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Splitter question

I bought a small (physically and power output) tube amp for my daughter and have been trying out different tubes and speaker inputs to see what I like best and to burn in for her. The amp has only one input source. I plan on buying her an inexpensive turntable since she loves playing records (which she calls VIN...ALL), but she also has a CD player. I came up with what I thought was a great idea, but it didn’t work!  I put a splitter in the amp’s input so I could plug in 2 sources and just play which one I wanted. With one source plugged in to the splitter it worked but as soon as I put the cable from the 2nd source in too the 1st source stopped working. 

Are splitters only good for output and won’t work for input?  If this is true is there a way for me to provide 2 sources in or will she just have to unplug the 1st source and then plug in the 2nd if she wants to change from CD to VIN...ALL?

Thanks for any input. 
ekimg

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ekimg OP
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Thank you!
ekimg OP
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Thanks donvito. The turntable I got her has a built in preamp so good there. Once the schiit is connected which volume control takes over?  Does one need to be adjusted and left alone and the other becomes the primary volume control?
ekimg OP
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No. I assumed I could only have one source on at a time to isolate the source I was playing?  If both the tt and the cd were on at the same time wouldn’t both be going into the input at the same time?  Using Audioquest hard splitter...1 male to 2 female. 
ekimg OP
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Thanks Al...great feedback as usual. I won’t use a splitter!  What is your opinion as to the switchbox with the volume control (which I don’t really need) such as the schiit versus the one without?  Only need two inputs and it is for my daughter with very basic components. The $49 for the schiit is attractive but curious if switchbox without that would be sonically better?

Mike
ekimg OP
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Thank you all.

The amp I bought her has 50k ohm impedance so looks like I will get the SYS and problem solved. By the way the amp is a TubeCube 7 from Tube Depot ($179) driving a pair of high efficiency (93db) Klipsch bookshelf speakers ($175).  It is a great little amp and very reasonably priced. It sounds amazing for the price. I liked the amp so much I ordered one for myself to play around with. Check it out.
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