Pioneer SX-1000 TD Dead Ceramic Phono Input

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Have you successfully used that cartridge with that amp in the past? If you haven't, then test the cartridge on an amp you know it works well with and see how it does.

If you did read the illegible documentation correctly and the cart is 10x the designed input level of the amp that mismatch could easily be the cause of the distortion.

I'll upload the schematic and you can be the judge for yourself.
But I do know that the Magnetic input voltage looked like 21 mV at first until I saw that the magnetic cartridges were never rated any higher than .5 V so then I blew up the schematic to about 175% and then sure enough the number had a decimal between it (it was 2.1 mV not 21 mV) so it could very well be that the ceramic output voltage number I was seeing was 5.1 mV not 51 mV (or a typo in the schematic).