RCA to 5Pin DIN issue

[bombidol]

Hey folks. I have a Rotel receiver/tuner from the 70s and a set of Wharfedale Glendale 3XP Speakers that Im rigging up at home at the moment. wired everything up and the tuner is working perfect with the speakers. However my turntable is a Numark and its only output is Phono/RCA ( I dunno what the proper term is) The receiver only has 5PinDIN in so I went to maplin to get some adapters.
They didnt have an all in one solution so I bought a female stereo quarter inch jack to male 5 PinDIN. Then a female RCA/PHONO to male stereo quarter jack out. Plug the two together and grand, it looks good. Plugged the turntable in and for some reason its only coming out the left channel.
Then I used a DJ mixer I had floating around as a go between just in case but the exact same thing happened. Just one channel coming out.
Any ideas or is there a better way to get from RCA/PHONO to 5PinDIN that will give me both channels?

Ive attached some pictures so that might help!
I am a complete newbie to all of these but I hope to learn!

[rhomanski]

Re: RCA to 5Pin DIN issue

The only thing I can say is that there are two different types of din plugs. They look alike but are not wired up the same. A European type and an american type. I've heard of people having trouble because of it before although I have no experience of it myself. Perhaps since the RCA jacks are american, the din plug is american style as well on that adapter and the other adapter is the european din.

[budm]

Re: RCA to 5Pin DIN issue

You can find out which pins are the hot pins (signal pin) for the Left and Right channel by doing this:
Set the volume to less than 1/4 up.
Get a paper clip that will fit into the Din receptacle socket.
Touch the screw head or the metal part of the receiver first to discharge the static, then insert the paper clip into the Din socket one at a time, when you touch the hot pin, you should hear 50 cycle hum from one of the speakers.
It should have one more pin that will do the same thing for the other channel of the speaker. Mark those two sockets to match the left and right of the hot pins.
Then you use Ohm meter to find out the ground pins, you will do this with the receiver off, by checking for <1 Ohm between the chassis screw and the remaining pins which should be ground.
If the phono pre-amps are OK, then you should hear the hums from each speaker.

[Elysarian]

Re: RCA to 5Pin DIN issue

Dunno if this will help (maybe if you want to make up a lead from scratch?):

http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/DIN_Audio