I have just bought (together with some old records) a Thorens TD 145 MkII turntable with an Ortofon MC 20 element. After connecting it to my amplifier, it truns out that this turntable gives only very little sound and I have to turn the volume of my amplifier fully open to be able to hear something. This does not seem to be correct. Am I doing something wrong or is the turntable broken?

Thanks,

Johan

I got an email from someone else with similar information. No, I don't have this MC input at my amp and I don't have a step up transformer, so it looks like I will have to buy one. Any ideas?

http://www.mennovanderveen.nl
http://www.mennovanderveen.nl/mc10/mc-10-en.pdf

Or LL9206 from Lundahl:
http://www.lundahl.se/pdfs/datash/9206.pdf

Of course, for step-up to work you must have a MM RIAA phono input on your amp - if not, separate MC in - line out preamp is in order...