RIAA Phono Preamp
This
riaa Pre-Amp is the perfect solution to getting a signal off of your old
turntable and into your mixing board. Whether you want to grab a couple
of loops from a 70’s LP record or just archive your record collection you
need an riaa compensated pre-amp to do it. When grooves are cut in the
vinyl of a record pre-emphasis is used to even out the size of the high
and low frequency grooves. To restore the recovered signals frequency response,
de-emphasis is required and this is the function of the PAiA riaa pre-amp.
As shown in the schematic, the circuit is built around an NE5532 high performance dual operational amplifier set up in a non-inverting configuration. Let’s look at one channel and see how it works. R5 and R3 initially give the pre-amp about 60db of gain. However R3 and C3 roll off low frequencies and form a rumble filter. The network of R4/C4 and R5/C5 actually form the riaa equalization response. Power is isolated by R1/R2 and filtered by C1/C2. The Phono Pre can run from a pair of 9V batteries or our 9770R-12 Universal Power Supply.
