Could i use a guitar amp for my record player?

2 Comments

1. John F says:

   November 21, 2009 at 12:32 pm

   Could you? Sure. Most record players need a preamp between them and the amplifier. Let’s say you had one and hooked it up to a guitar amp. It would work, but guitar amps are made for guitars, and are generally designed to produce distortion along with a louder signal. Plus the amp doesn’t generally have a flat frequency response over the same range that an amplifier designed for music playback does. So it would work OK, but might not sound that great.
2. wires says:

   November 21, 2009 at 12:32 pm

   You can use almost any amp, but you need a phono preamp to do so. Some amps have one built in and inputs labeled as phono or turntable. If there’s no input labeled as phono or turntable then you’ll need a preamp.