From the sound of it yes. However it must have a very advanced
disintegration device to do this sort of thing. The normal issue is that the
software controlled input switching gets scrambled so you cannot make it
work but from what you say it sounds worse.
Hard to see how a preamp can do this.
As for how it sounded, well like most things you get what you pay for and
many turntables sold with cartridges are let down by that cartridge.
Brian

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"Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)" wrote
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Against my strongest advice son and his mum purchased a turntable for
christmas but couldn't use it as his amps didn't have phono input so
today we popped into Richer Sounds and picked up a phono pre-amp.

Wired it up and he un-joyed the whole reason CD's became just so
popular... (E.L.O. no sparkle or brightness,dull and lifeless, just as I
remembered Vinyl to be)

Anyway... he listened to it for about an hour, switched it off then came
back to listen again but his amp appeared to be non-amplifying so he
plugged the TT/Pre-amp into another amp (the one that electrocuted me
previously but still passed PAT test) and that too didn't respond to any
audio source but if it was turned up to 99 with a regular audio source
there is the faint sound from the speakers then the amp shuts down.

Is it possible the phono pre-amp has trashed 2 amplifiers?
When it was set up first there wasn't any problem or signs of impending
doom.

Tried a 3'rd amp (radio source not TT) on the speakers and speakers work
fine. It's got me baffled.

Optical, bluetooth and analogue inputs are all non-responsive.
Do we have an amp. killer?

TIA
Pete