turntable preamp?

[oldbuiff]

greetings :
new to AK so please forgive if I am in the wrong forum,
also grew up in the 60's when the only source of music was vinyl and a little tape. that said after a came back from V NAM I had a kenwood receiver and a Technics turn table that I coupled a a time with couple of criterion speakers and sounded very good, well now I am back to play vinyl( yes analog is fun) and scored a vintage MCS 3253 receiver and a Technics SL-B300 T/T , my question is if I need a preamp or can connect directly to the 3253 amp.
Well I did and have the need to pump the volume to get a good sound vs my tape deck that plays with much less volume. Is this matter the cartridge in the table is is AT VS235EP.
I really appreciate any advise!!
thank you for reading

all the best
Hiram

 

[rajoo]

Your MCS 3253 is a receiver which means it includes a tuner, a preamp with two phono inputs and an amplifier.
So if you connect your turntable cables to one of the Phono inputs (1 or 2), you are good to go.
Make sure that you have the correct Phono button selected (depressed) on the front panel.

 

[coonmanx]

Yup. Use phono inputs and hook up the ground wire and you should be good to go.

 

[rajoo]

Yup. Use phono inputs and hook up the ground wire and you should be good to go.

I failed to mention the ground wire. thanks.

 

[illinoisteve]

Some time in the late 1980s, or maybe it was in the 1990s, they started making receivers without phono inputs. Some bean counters thought vinyl was going to die. Just imagine that! So if you had one of those receivers, you would need a phono preamp, but you don't have to have one if your receiver or amp has phono inputs.

Of course there are people who want a better phono preamp than the one built into your or my receiver, so they will spend as much as they want in search of higher quality, God bless 'em. But that is a matter of choice.

 

[sqlsavior]

It is normal for phono inputs to require more amplification than other sources. Just turn it up, unless it sounds bad.

 

[illinoisteve]

Maybe, but practically everything I plug into my mid-'70s Kenwood KR-5150 receiver runs with the volume at about 9 o-clock--tape decks, CD player, turntable. Anything louder is too loud for the room and residents. Once in a while a particular recording will require a lower or higher volume setting, but it isn't component dependent ever at all. I wonder why that is? Or why not all other amps/receivers behave that way.