No - ones with lightweight tone arms, just like the others. Successors to decks like the Garrard SP-25 or Pioner PL-12D. After all, you need power to drive the turntable motor; it's not really that difficult to build the pre-amp into the same box as the turntable.
These became more common once audio systems were less likely to provide a dedicated 'phono' input; a record deck that could be plugged directly into an 'aux' input could still be used. On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:25:08PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: > Yep, cheap one's with heavy tone arms. I though I covered that. > > John Francis wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Carlos Royo wrote: > > > > > >>P. J. Alling escribi?: > >> > >> > >>>Should be a relatively simple matter of taking the output from the > >>>turntable to and patching it to the aux. input on a sound card. > >>> > >>> > >>It won't work. You need a phono pre-amp, or a sound card that has one. A > >>few of them have an external phono pre-amp. > >> > >> > > > >Not necessarily - some turntables have a preamp built in. > > > > > > > >
