Hooking old speakers up to a new record player?

seachto7

Hi all,

There are other threads set up with similar questions on new record players, but I have a question which involves possibly combining an old stereo with a new vinyl player.

I have an old stereo from the 90s with decent speakers. You might remember, you had to hook them up with the red and white wire for each side.

My question is, would this type of input be now obsolete on new record players.

My thinking was I could buy a player, possibly then connect it to an amp, and then hook the old speakers to the amp.

seachto7

Or best to just get a new hifi to cover CDs and Mp3 files etc, and get a standalone turntable to plug into the back of it?

seachto7

I have an old Sony hifi, but the CD player is dodgy, so maybe best to get something new.
It's up the attic now, but I do recall the speakers were pretty good on it, so I was kicking around the idea of salvaging them maybe.
However the inputs were the old style red and white wire into the back of the unit.
I can't recall (I'll have to check) if there was a red and white jack input.

akaSol

You can use the old speakers on new amp's , all amp's new or old take red / black cable.
The issue might be power : micro Hifi speakers are usually light weight, while a separate amp would be far greater output

>Sol

seachto7

Hmm, maybe I could just get a new all in one unit with CD/vinyl/usb

akaSol

seachto7 wrote: »

Hmm, maybe I could just get a new all in one unit with CD/vinyl/usb

If you want to listen to door bell speakers or worse !
Easy way out is to sake a snap of the old hifi / speakers and post them - then it might be as simple as picking up an amp

>Sol

seachto7

Ok, I'll root it out and get a pic

seachto7

Here are some pics of the speakers. I think the guts of the unit is packed away, so need to locate it! Maybe the speakers are worse than I think they are...

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seachto7

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listermint

seachto7 wrote: »

Here are some pics of the speakers. I think the guts of the unit is packed away, so need to locate it! Maybe the speakers are worse than I think they are...

IMG_0826.JPG

If the rear of the Stereo as a line in (red and white( inputs) you should have an AUX option on the frontof the stereo.
You can hook your Vinyl player into these providing that the vinyl player has a single lineout jack OR and red white outputs. (it should have these)

cml387

Bit confused here.
You could use your old amp if it has an aux input or a line-in input. I would guess that a new turntable won't use the old phono input any more.

seachto7

Most of them seem to have the red and white outputs. Thing is, the unit I was going to use, the CD player is shot, so I'd just be using it to power a record player.

Once I can find it, I'll know more!

akaSol

seachto7 wrote: »

Here are some pics of the speakers. I think the guts of the unit is packed away, so need to locate it! Maybe the speakers are worse than I think they are...

IMG_0826.JPG

While the sticker is a bit hazy they are lighter speakers, probably designed just for the Sony. That doesn't mean that they can't be used on a bigger amp, you just can't give it allot of welly.

New amp wise - Denon and Pioneer have a couple of good budget amp's €200/€260 mark which give you the option of better speakers in the future.

>Sol

seachto7

Cheers.

I think I might abandon salvaging the Sony. They're small enough speakers, that is correct.

Might put something together separately without trying to spend a whole pile

Could I get a record player, perhaps an EQ unit like one would use in a home studio, like a Behringer or something similar, an amp, and then some monitors/speakers

akaSol

seachto7 wrote: »

Cheers.

I think I might abandon salvaging the Sony. They're small enough speakers, that is correct.

Might put something together separately without trying to spend a whole pile

Could I get a record player, perhaps an EQ unit like one would use in a home studio, like a Behringer or something similar, an amp, and then some monitors/speakers

A Behringer is probably a little ott for small domestic HiFI .
And yes a modest set-up should not exceed at a stretch €600 that's with a good amp +speakers+turn table
Depend's obviously how deep your pockets are

>Sol