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Bad Equalizer Maybe?

Penn42

Penn42

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I bought a little Realistic five band stereo equalizer at a used electronics shop the other day for 4 bucks. I have a Technics turntable running through it to my pioneer SX-737 receiver. Anyway, when I have the receiver at a reasonable volume and turn on the equalizer my speakers pop and the diaphragms pulse really large. This also happens when I press the bypass button. If I turn the volume on the receiver down this doesn't happen, obviously, but then (when the equalizer is on) there is a slight hum through my speakers when I turn the receiver's volume back up. Is the equalizer bad? I have the table going into the main input on the equalizer and have a cable going from main out of the equalizer to the phono input on the receiver.

Any information would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Grant
 
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You need to put the eq on one of the tape input/outputs and select that...keep the phono on the receiver phono input.

Also - its always best to turn on the amp last.
 
Do I need the Turntable going into the tape mon on the equalizer then from the tape out on the equalizer to phono on the receiver? Or do I need the turntable going directly to the receiver and the equalizer doing something else? I tried the former and I had no sound.
 
Plug the turntable directly into the phono inputs on the receiver. Doing it thru the equalizer is overloading the phono input.
 
That makes sense, the whole reason I wanted to use the equalizer is because the particular table I'm using right now doesn't have very good lows so I just wanted to bump them a bit. Is there any way I can use the equalizer for this purpose? I can do it on the receiver, but it's always fun to use new toys.
 
Connect the equalizer to the tape monitor inputs and outputs. Use the tape monitor switch to switch the equalizer in and out of the system.
 
It is best to turn on the amp/receiver LAST
And turn off the amp/receiver FIRST
To avoid loud pops when using a system.
 
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