James, thank you.
I bought the Citation 11 on eBay.  It had flaws that have now floated to
the surface.
I was given a Harman Kardon Citation 6 last year and it too has one channel
out.
I like these, Radio Shack used to sell very small ones for $15 when I was a
kid, and they seemed to work just fine.
But anything to handle multiple inputs outputs and tone volume etc are on
eBay, but they ain't cheap.
GW

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 17:04, James Perrett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The Revox A700 and some Philips machines (certainly the N4506, N4515 and
> probably others intended to be used with MFB speakers) include phono
> preamps but most tape machines don't. You can buy basic phono preamps for
> very little money on Ebay which will almost certainly work better than
> trying to kludge something together using the mic inputs.
>
> James.
>
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 17:22, Railroads On Parade <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > One must have an exterior preamplifier to record from a turntable onto
> this
> > tape deck, correct?  My pre-amp just lost one channel, off to the doc.  I
> > wish someone would tell me my tape deck has a preamp for my turntable
> > during the repair job.
> >
> > Happy Thanksgiving!
> > Guy Walker
> >
>
>
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