ChefE
Active Member
Hi. This post is regarding home audio use only. Not professional.
I have a few turntables (2x Technics SL-1200mk2, SL-5300, SL-J33) and a
Pioneer DJM-300-S deejay mixer/ phono preamp. I connect the mixer to a vintage stereo receiver with phono inputs via RCA cables. Even tho the mixer is a phono preamp, is it best to connect it to the receiver 'phono input' RCA jacks? This is how I've been doing it. But I've wondered...wouldn't that double up the load? To compensate, the trim is low and I try to balance the output/input of the equipment so it's all in the green and barely into the yellow.
After the deejay tendency to continual increase volume is another story.
What if the mixer was connected instead into either a "AUX input" or a "tape input" of a receiver that has a phono input? Receivers without a phono input are n/a for this inquiry, but could be a helpful alternative for others.
The Pioneer Operating Instructions don't address this issue. It just shows a illustration depicting the mixer output jackets connected to the RCA cables connected to a stereo amplifier ( drawn as a rectangle box with 5 circles as the front face).
What is the correct way to connect a DJ mixer/ preamp to a home stereo?
Ps
Now that I think about it, I've never experimented to know the answer of what's the sound difference between using the receivers 'phono 1 input' or 'aux input' connected to the mixer and a turntable.....
And use 'phono 2 input' connected directly to the other turntable.
(Receiver with two phono inputs- options: a Sansui G-7700 or Sansui 8900ZDB or Wintec R-1120
or Toshiba SA-520. I wish more manufactures included two phono inputs.)
I have a few turntables (2x Technics SL-1200mk2, SL-5300, SL-J33) and a
Pioneer DJM-300-S deejay mixer/ phono preamp. I connect the mixer to a vintage stereo receiver with phono inputs via RCA cables. Even tho the mixer is a phono preamp, is it best to connect it to the receiver 'phono input' RCA jacks? This is how I've been doing it. But I've wondered...wouldn't that double up the load? To compensate, the trim is low and I try to balance the output/input of the equipment so it's all in the green and barely into the yellow.
After the deejay tendency to continual increase volume is another story.
What if the mixer was connected instead into either a "AUX input" or a "tape input" of a receiver that has a phono input? Receivers without a phono input are n/a for this inquiry, but could be a helpful alternative for others.
The Pioneer Operating Instructions don't address this issue. It just shows a illustration depicting the mixer output jackets connected to the RCA cables connected to a stereo amplifier ( drawn as a rectangle box with 5 circles as the front face).
What is the correct way to connect a DJ mixer/ preamp to a home stereo?
Ps
Now that I think about it, I've never experimented to know the answer of what's the sound difference between using the receivers 'phono 1 input' or 'aux input' connected to the mixer and a turntable.....
And use 'phono 2 input' connected directly to the other turntable.
(Receiver with two phono inputs- options: a Sansui G-7700 or Sansui 8900ZDB or Wintec R-1120
or Toshiba SA-520. I wish more manufactures included two phono inputs.)
