You need shielded phono cable from your turntable to the phono stage (this is where the problem is, if you're using unshielded ) and maybe even from a phono stage to amp.
At wits' end with radio through the speakers!
Hi, i am hoping for some creative ideas here ...
I have "upgraded" to a tubed phono stage with Herron VTPH2A.
I can hear quite clearly radio in the background! Drives me nuts!
I tried:
2 more data points:
"old" Schiit Mani phono is quiet and cant hear the radio!
Thanks in advance!
I have "upgraded" to a tubed phono stage with Herron VTPH2A.
I can hear quite clearly radio in the background! Drives me nuts!
I tried:
- Moving TT.
- Moving preamp.
- Moving grounding cable.
- Upgraded phono cable (slight improvement but still very clear)
- Upgraded audio cables.
- Using Ground Control GC1 doo
- Inserting shorting plugs.
2 more data points:
"old" Schiit Mani phono is quiet and cant hear the radio!
Thanks in advance!
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Oh brother. I have the exact same problem(not with a Herron) and no matter what I’ve tried from everybody I’ve spoken to nothing helps. SS or tube. It suddenly started one day and I wonder if some sort of magnetic field developed in my large apartment building that I can do nothing about short of moving which is impossible. Digital is fine. Analog is no longer viable. |
Thanks everyone for the responses! so: Digital stage (Auralic, Chord) are quiet as a mouse. Phono cable is shielded: Cardas Clear Sygnus. Talked to Keith Herron. Indeed very approachable and helpful guy. His suggestion is the shielded cables. One thing i will try now is Clip-on Ferrite Ring i saw in one of the forums. Cheap enough. The last option is to move to West Virginia ! :) |
I had that problem when a local radio station moved its antenna a half mile from my house back in the 80’s. I could not get rid of the radio sound playing in the background no matter what I tried. I even tried shielded speaker cables. Lucky for me the station folded within 6 months and about 3 years later their antenna was dismantled. There are new houses where the radio station used to be now. |
I have noticed after purchasing a Manley Chinook SE MK2 I am hearing radio stations. However, it is only coming through when the tonearm is sitting on the tonearm rest. Once I lift it up it stops. In addition, like the original post my previous phono preamps did not experience this interference either. |
I had radio pickup when I bought a Naim Superline phonostage, mostly in Russian. A 1nf loading plug (in parallel with the resistive load) reduced the level to where I could live with it but I could never eliminate it until I swapped out the steel framed rack for one made largely of wood, I can only hypothesise that the old rack was acting like an aerial element and focusing the signal but I’d tried earthing it to no avail. |