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For future reference for anyone else who has a problem like this, I figured it out! The double-sided RCA cord that came with the phono pre-amp was my problem. I did not need to use it to connect my pre-ramp to my turntable, rather, I needed to use the one-sided RCA cord that is already connected to ...

Yes, that's it. And I have tried with headphones, adjusting the volume on both the turntable and the pre-amp (which has its own volume control), but I've never been able to hear anything. Maybe I have a defective product.

Some turntables have "line level" outputs, but most, particularly older hi-fi turntables don't and require a "phone pre-amp" (which I assume is what you thought you were buying). The Pyle Pro PADRI3 says on the packaging that is a "phono pre-amp." Unless I've been a victim of misleading marketing, ...

Thanks for your replies, Koz. I'm still confused, though (like I said, I'm new at this). The cable I'm using has left and right RCA connections on both ends -- according to the instructions that came with the pre-amp, I'm supposed to plug one set into the pre-amp and the other into the turntable. Yo...

This may be a very basic question, but this is my first time trying to digitize records. I have a Pyle Pro PADRI3 pre-amp connected with RCA cables to a Fisher MT-M44 turntable (ie. an old one, from the 70s I think), and the pre-amp connected to my 2007 Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 via USB. I...