Looking for help

[killinxtime]

setting up my Audio Technical AT-LP60 with my Onkyo TX-NR616. It worked first time setting it up but now every time I turn it on I have to fool around with it (I have no idea what I'm doing) before it starts to work. At first I thought I had my input that my turntable plugged into set on Whole House mode and once I took the input off WHM it began to work. However I just turned it on and even on whole house mode turned off I'm still not getting any sound. Anyone have any advice for a noob?

 

[BassKulcha]

Those Audio Technicas have an internal phono pre-amp option. Make sure that the switch in the back is set to "Phono" and not "line" (assuming your Onkyo has a phono preamp and the AT-LP60 is plugged into the "phono" RCA in the back...). Otherwise, check the RCA and speaker wire connections (make sure that red goes to red and black goes to black...)

 

[toxcrusadr]

Which inputs do you have it plugged into on the Onkyo?

Not sure what Whole House Mode is but from the sound of it, it shouldn't affect whether you get any output.

 

[killinxtime]

I have the phono preamp on the turntable switched on, and the reciever doesn't have a dedicated phono input so I have the turntables rca jacks plugged into the tv/cd input as that one just has the red/White input and no video input. Still no dice.

 

[toxcrusadr]

Well that's the right way. I take it there is only one set of outputs on the TT? And they are either at low (phono) level when the internal preamp is turned off, and at line level when it's on?

You should be able to use any line level RCA inputs on the receiver regardless of whether they have an accompanying video input jack. So you could try others if you have them - is there a stereo input marked CD, DVD, Tape, Aux, etc.?

 

[markn2wae]

Is it possible that an input employing a VIDEO jack might MUTE the audio if there is NO video signal?

Mark T.

 

[Eric Lloyd]

Sounds like it may be physically hooked up correctly - might be time to get into your Onkyo operators manual.

My first impulse, though, is to hook something else up to that input (a CD player maybe) and see if the same problems arise. This way you can eliminate the record player from the list of possible culprits. Diagnosis often takes the form of a process of elimination.

Check all the simple stuff first (cable connections), then check your receiver's troubleshooting chart in the manual. If that doesn't do it, change one thing and see if that has an effect. Continue eliminating possible causes until you hit upon the thing that fixes the problem. Hopefully, you'll have something easy and not an internal receiver problem. Good luck.