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Anyone have this turntable issue?

Whenever I set my cartridge on the record, I hear a loud pop. This is with the volume turned down all the way. It seems to be the stylus entering the groove. I have done everything to avoid static in the system. I'm quite sure it is not static. Just one loud pop when the cartridge is lowered. No problems after that. I cannot imagine how that impulse noise gets to the speaker with zero gain on the preamp/processor. How can this happen?!
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millercarbon
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jea48: How do explain the OP said the volume control is turned all the way down? How is the POP signal voltage getting through the all the way turned down volume control?


Funny you don't ask the static charge people the same question. Oh well. 
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millercarbon
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OP:
I have done everything to avoid static in the system. I'm quite sure it is not static.


elizabeth:
It has to be static. No other possible thing.


jea48:
I agree with elizabeth, it has to be static.


Simple enough to test. If its static then it will pop even before the stylus touches down, the instant its close enough for a charge to zap across the gap. Otherwise it will pop only after gliding over the vinyl to finally drop into the groove.

And so as Richard Dawson so often proclaimed..... "Survey says......"
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millercarbon
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 It seems to be the stylus entering the groove.


Right.
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