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I'm curious to see this thing...

My apologies on the usage of the word "through" The Mildford. I mean't to say the "traveling" of the sound to the speakers. As for pictures here we go.

TheMilford wrote:First of all... maybe this is one of those all-in-one turntables... where the pre/power amp is built in and it uses RCA jacks as speaker jack...

This man was right on.

Forget all that complicated stuff I wrote up above. The output jacks you have are a little blurry. Do they say "Speakers" above the jacks?

If so, then you just need to find a pair of cheap speakers with an RCA-in jack. Absent that, you could probably use a cheap pair of computer speakers plugged into a RCA to mini-jack adapter, bought from Radio Shack.

What kind of speakers do you have lying around?

= Justin

Justin,

I appreciate all the help. I will probably have to hit Radio Shack or a pawn shop then. As for speakers, I do have an RCA stereo but I don't see anything on the back of it that I can connect. Nothing for AV cables.

Is there any way you can type out what the back says?

That would help.

Looks like there are some "screw-mount" type connectors... I just want to confirm what these are before I give any more advice.

Cheers,
D

TheMilford wrote:Is there any way you can type out what the back says?

That would help.

Looks like there are some "screw-mount" type connectors... I just want to confirm what these are before I give any more advice.

Cheers,
D

It says "INT ANT GJD" on the back. Above, " FM Ant and then 300 and 75 bellow that.

Units like that had their own built in stereo speakers that often clipped to the "components" or could be placed as far away as the permant cord it was attached to allowed. If the speakers are gone I imagine you will need to use the headphone jack to listen.

Having helped my younger brother destroy two of those units plus numerous records as a kid, I recommend you don't play your vinyl on that thing unless you don't care about it.

Hour_of_the_Wolf wrote:

TheMilford wrote:Is there any way you can type out what the back says?

That would help.

Looks like there are some "screw-mount" type connectors... I just want to confirm what these are before I give any more advice.

Cheers,
D

It says "INT ANT GJD" on the back. Above, " FM Ant and then 300 and 75 bellow that.

Those are your antenna mounts, btw. You can buy loooooong spools of 300 ohm (edit--funny that other special characters get parsed, but the omega does not) wire for your antenna, screw one wire down to FM Ant, the other to 300, and then out at the other end, twist the two ends together. You can get fancy like splice this in with a perpendicular section arranged in a T shape, but the thing is you want a signal path from one end to the other.

I'm really enjoying this thread. All the speculation, historical background, technical explanations, foggy clues...It's just like the Da Vinci Code.

OK, I have an antenna question: My Marantz 2225 antenna connections look like this:

FM....FM.......G.....AM
|-300-|--75--|.......|
0.......0........0.......0

the numbers are ohms.

So do I make a loop from 300 to G, 75 to G, or all three to each other?