Many who read the title are probably thinking, yes turntables have low outputs. I realize this, but a table I have seems to be a lot lower than normal. Here is the situation. It is a Music Hall MMF5 that had some shipping damage. I decided to fix it up as a project and put it in my 2 channel room. Everything looks good and seems to be working except that the signal level is very low. I have it connected to a Vincent phono stage and to a Jolida integrated. With the Jolida at full volume, I can carry on a normal conversation over the phone with a record playing. I called a couple of places and was told that the phono stage doesn't have a high enough output voltage to drive my integrated. I thought it made perfect sense, but I wasn't 100% convinced so I did some testing of my own. I tried the table out on my other system with the Jolida phono stage which has plenty of gain and the signal was still very quiet. It was a lot louder, but still not normal. I have a MMF 5.1 hooked up to it normally and I don't have to turn the volume as loud as I did with the rebuilt table. I also took my working table and put it in the 2 channel system and it is louder than the rebuilt one with the Vincent and Jolida integrated. I talked to my dealer and he couldn't think of anything off hand.
