real systems, wired up.
Each of these is a system somebody actually owns, taken apart connection by connection. Every socket, count and setting on them comes from the manufacturer’s own manual, and every one ends at a cable plan you can open and adjust.
A turntable into an amplifier that has a phono stage. Where the earth wire goes, and the one input a record player must never use.
verified with manufacturer documentationActive speakers, so there is no amplifier and no speaker cable to run. One lead to buy, and it is for the subwoofer.
verified with manufacturer documentationNothing in any of the three boxes is a cable, and the amplifier has no digital input, so there is no DAC decision to make.
verified with manufacturer documentationTwo phono stages in one system, and a choice between them the day a turntable arrives.
verified with manufacturer documentationThe same converter in both boxes, a volume that can follow you between them, and a pair of speakers that are handed.
verified with manufacturer documentationThe one balanced connection on the site, and the front-panel light that decides whether you hear anything at all.
verified with manufacturer documentationA streamer, an integrated amplifier and a pair of floorstanders. Two connections, and the first cable is already in the box.
verified with manufacturer documentation