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Annoying Sibilance Problem

Ok so here's the scoop.

I've got a Grado Gold mounted on my Technics SL1200 and everything sounds wonderful, except on some recordings I get some pretty nasty distortion on hard T sounds and S sounds in vocals. It's not on every record but when it's there it's very apparent. I can't imagine the records are the problem as some of them are new, but I do not have another table/cart to test that right now.

The funny thing is if I swap the preamp over to mono the distortion is pretty much gone. Any ideas why it's doing this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
silvergsx

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dgordonl
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Silvergsx,
I had the same problem but also had some distortion with some of my New albumn's that were pressed by CLASSIC...especially the ones by female vocal artists like Diana Krall and Norah Jones.One of my dealers stated that Classic was pressing albums too fast and were creating poor recordings,and even had a hard time getting replacements from the manufracture.I avoid buying Classic labels.
This happened some time ago...They might be back on track with their pressings now,and taking more care in what they are doing.
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