I am willing to bet you are getting some feedback. Can you remove the grill and observe if the woofer is oscillating abnormally? If it is, its a feedback problem. I had this problem with my Scout and now my Prime. My turntable is on top of a rack on a solid 3 inch thick maple air dried platform which is sitting on a sandwich material I bought from Mapleshade. I still got it. I bought a KAB Rumble filter for 180.00 and put it through the tape loop. Now the problem is solved and I haven’t lost any bass quality. You should hear how subteranian it goes during some songs on Amused To Death. I could rattle the fillings out of someone's teeth!
Bass distortion-Playing LP's only,,,,please help
VPI Prime----Ortofon Black Quintet (low output moving coil cart)-----Plinius Koru Phono Pre( loading at 20 ohms/gain at 66 db)-----Parasound Halo Integrated -----Martin Logan Montis speakers which have powered bass cabinets.
Using any other source component I have absolutely no issues. When I play an LP and increase the volume past 10 O'clock which is a little loud....but not ridiculously loud-I at times get this huge wave of bass distortion. I do have bass controls on the Montis's...and I have turned them down into the negative, but I still get what I previously described occasionally.
Any and all help would be appreciated. This doesn't always happen, but its frequent enough to drive me crazy.
Thanks in advance.
Using any other source component I have absolutely no issues. When I play an LP and increase the volume past 10 O'clock which is a little loud....but not ridiculously loud-I at times get this huge wave of bass distortion. I do have bass controls on the Montis's...and I have turned them down into the negative, but I still get what I previously described occasionally.
Any and all help would be appreciated. This doesn't always happen, but its frequent enough to drive me crazy.
Thanks in advance.