Quad Help!

[spendorman]

I recently bought an old A&R Cambridge A60 amp, it has Din inputs, came with a lead (Din to RCA) it was connected incorrectly and initially thought amp was faulty. It was the lead amp was fine.

[spendorman]

It could be that the two Din to RCA that you have, the owner used to take record output from 33 to tape recorder. These would be connected incorectly for input.

[symon]

I can get replacements if need be. It just seems unlikely that they would be wrong given the fact that the set up was used previously and quite obviously worked. I'll be phoning the previous owner tomorrow for a chat about all this anyway.

[symon]

It could be that the two Din to RCA that you have, the owner used to take record output from 33 to tape recorder. These would be connected incorectly for input.

They were used with a cdp and turntable. No cassette decks in sight.

[spendorman]

Just out of interest, what should I get to do a proper test of the cables? (ie, other than a bulb and a battery!)

Continuity test is fine using battery/ bulb or multimeter. However you must make sure that the correct pins of the Din plug are used. The Din plugs often come apart and the pins are marked.

Multimeter, £4- £10 on ebay etc, Maplin etc.

[spendorman]

I can get replacements if need be. It just seems unlikely that they would be wrong given the fact that the set up was used previously and quite obviously worked. I'll be phoning the previous owner tomorrow for a chat about all this anyway.

Yes but if your two din/ RCA were used to take output of 33 to tape deck, the wrong pins of the Din plug will be connected whe using these adaptors for replay.

[spendorman]

To be sure you could get a Din plug/ lead terminating in four RCA, two of those will be correct.

[spendorman]

Just bear in mind, 5 pin Din sockets can have two inputs and two outputs.

[spendorman]

They were used with a cdp and turntable. No cassette decks in sight.

Ah!

[symon]

Well, I thought I'd try a few other things. So, I took the leads connecting the tt to the 33 and used those for the cdp - no change.
I then thought about the speaker cable and swapped the connections around to the 4 different ways I could think of to reconnect - just in case I had wired up the speakers incorrectly. No change.
The light came on briefly when I pressed some more random buttons (different ones to yesterday) - although I think the common link was the Radio 2 button.

So, I'm still confused.

The units were serviced a year or two ago by a chap in Exeter. When they in use before me, they had a tt and cdp going into a mixer into the 33 (I think).