Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT> Yep.  We'll see how it goes,  from here.  Think gramofile will deal
RJT> with a cassette tape?  :-)

WC> Nope, equalization curve all wrong for one thing.

RJT> Hm.  I didn't think it did much ewith equalization,  that's something I
RJT> would normally expect to be handled by the preamp...

WC> IIRC usually a tape output is standard and precompensated to be
WC> flat in it's line outputs but this is not so with magnetic or
WC> ceramic phono pickups, radically not so.

Right,  more not so with magnetic,  where the response is decidedly tilted.
 But as I say,  the preamp usually takes care of this.

WC> However I thought from an earlier post you were in _need_ of a 
WC> preamp to input into an auxillery line input on an amplifier,
WC> perhaps I'm  mistaken? 

No,  that's correct.  What I have here is a _ceramic_ cartridge.  High
impedance,  but a basically flat output.

WC> Either that or the preamp you were planning to use was compensated 
WC> for one type of input but not the one output by the pickup?

That too.  The receiver I have here is set up for a magnetic cartridge.

WC> The point is rendered entirely moot as you'll never have enough 
WC> *room* to get the amplifier into the same room with the computer 
WC> 

Heh.

Actually to my left is the smaller part of this L-shaped desk,  on which
sits, among much other junk,  the test fixture.  And a little mono vga
monitor.  I could move that out of there,  and have all that space...   :-)

Where to put it in here isn't anywhere near as much of a problem as the
"thundering herd" downstairs,  also known as preschool twin boys.
 :-(

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