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Connect vintage turntable with amplifier to another amplifier?

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Gyro:
I wondered if that might happen (although in the opposite direction) hence suggesting tapping after the volume control, so that the level could be dropped if necessary.

It's unfortunately a consequence of a unit with no line-level connections, it doesn't need to meet any 'standard' so there is nothing defining what the line level at the volume control actually is. In your case, the level is very low and most of the gain is in the speaker amplifier.

I would hesitate to try to pick up a higher level in the early stages of the speaker amplifier without a schematic. The two alternatives I see are either use the speaker outputs and see how good/bad the quality is. The other is to build or buy a small preamplifier board to increase the level.

I would obviously try the first one and see how much distortion the speaker amplifier actually has. Poor frequency response is the other potential issue. The speaker amplifier has transformer coupled output stage drivers and was designed to drive small, low frequency limited speakers.

Only trying it will tell you whether the quality is degraded too much (compared to what you have heard, tapping at the volume control).

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