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This means I have to crawl through manually.All in all, my ancient Pioneer sounded far superior, as does anything by a "proper" hi-fi brand such as ARCAM or Marantz. So I've had to twist my expensive four-core wire into two and cripple my beautiful speakers with inferior sound and bass/treble interference.* The radio doesn't seem to be able to scan stations automatically properly. I guess at this price it's what you might expect, but I have to say I'm disappointed and I'm already eager to get rid of it. I've owned this receiver for about a year now.It's got a detailed, bright and precise sound. The controls are useful - having a remote is handy and the giant volume control on the unit itself is as intuitive as you need an amplifier to be.My gripes are:* Poor bass response unless you fiddle with the settings (which should not be necessary).* I could not get it to bi-wire properly with my B&W DM-602s even though the amp has two sets of speaker outputs.
I listened to it only infrequently, but it died shortly after the warranty expired anyway.A total waste of money. I bought this receiver because it has a phono input, a rarity on these days. It arrived a big, heavy monster that hummed like crazy no matter what I did to try and correct it.I should have just sent it back, but the shipping would have cost 30% of the purchase price.
Now, just beyond warranty, the power transformer on this one has died. Amazon replaced. Need I say more. Bought one a year ago. In a matter of weeks the power transformer died.
modern phonographs have pre-amps built-in. Previous commenter stated:"It also has a 'phono' input which has gone away on all others. The preamp amplifies this low level signal to 'line-level' that your (speaker) amplifier is used to dealing with. If this is true in your case, then yes you can hook the phonograph to the CD, tape or other 'line-level' inputs.If you have an older phonograph that does not have a built-in preamp, then you will either need to hook it up to a 'phono' input that is designed for this purpose, or you will need an additional preamp so that you can connect it to a line-level input.This is because older phonographs, just like many microphones have a very low signal level. Contrary to what the salesmen said, a 'phono' CANNOT be connected to the CD or other input without an additional pre-amp. "Most (all).
Purchased via Amazon 9+ months ago, and I was satisfied for the first few months. source at around 30 and Tapes at 40 ~ all to the same level of loudness. But problems arose. Now it won't tell one from another - sometimes it plays CD when you push Aux, or Aux when you push Tape, othertimes it takes a power-off/power-on to find the Aux source.
Yes, the quality of sound to the main speakers is fine, and worth $130 if it worked properly (I obviously got a defective unit). When switching to CD after an Aux. Suddenly I'm aware the Teac had (at best) a poor surround system, and a poor interface, and no subwoofer, central speaker, functionable surround options. But maybe I should have saved up and gotten a Denon (or equivalent higher-end) in the first place ($500) ~ having access to surround, central, subwoofer etc. So was the Denon worth $130. It did the job as my music sounded fine.
input I get BLASTED if I don't remember to turn down the volume.So my sister loaned me a Denon (a higher-end stereo receiver line) and I was surprised at the step up (cost to value). is wonderful. It has inputs for Tape/Aux/CD/Tuner/Phono ~ and I installed 3 of the inputs (Aux/CD/Tape). And the volume control is wacko - the volume gauge runs from 1 to 62, and I play cd's at around level 15, the aux.
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