Why are my speaker so low on phono?

[Tonoje]

In his first post, the OP mentions that he has a cassette deck.

Yeah, I mean I'm kind of failing to follow what the OP does and doesn't have. The pictured turntable clearly has a phono cable, while the OP says emphatically there is only a power cord. There are various things they have shown/stated that can't be true unless the other is untrue. Perhaps more information is on the way.

Coachmaria, it will help if you can post a photo that shows the phono cable running all the way from the rear of the turntable to the phono input on the receiver. It should be easy enough to show both units and the cable in one shot. Then one issue can be ruled out so that people can move on to the next.

 

[cwall99]

When I started using a separate phono preamp instead of my receiver's built-in phono preamp, I got a few extra dB added to the phono out signal.

If you can (afford it), try putting a stand-alone phono preamp between your phono deck and your receiver or preamp.

WARNING: If you do this, don't plug the output from the phono preamp into your receiver's phono preamp. Use an Aux input instead.

 

[whoaru99]

Probably should at least make sure can get it working reasonably before injecting even more complexity.

 

[BmWr75]

Until the OP responds and answers the posed questions, further speculation is just that. Power cord on the left and RCA cord on the right most likely in the photo.

 

[Bob King]

Some of those Kenwood separates require the remote to set the volume; I recall one I had that had a exploded memory cap that I removed that then required the remote to set volume at every power down.