Doesn't the fact that there is no more hum with the Aural Thrills cables mean the problem is solved?
Phono cables
I'm interested in trying some different phono cables but not sure what. I made a big change to my system recently and am now getting phono hum with many cables I have here except for Aural Thrills. Same turntable/ cartridge, but now hooked into a Luxman 590 axII integrated with built in phono stage. I had all separates before including a phono amp. I've tried several different Discovery cables, Cardas Golden Reference, a VPI phono cable, and some inexpensive Monster Cables. All produced hum. I might add, the hum came on only when the needle was placed on the record. Does anyone know what the Aural Thrills has or doesn't have in its makeup that cancels the hum? Any other product that is made similarly? It's not that I am unhappy with the sound from Aural Thrills, I just want to try some others for comparison. I don't want to just randomly buy cables and end up with hum again. I did already try several hum remedies that most are familiar with, i.e. cheater plugs, separate grounding wires to everything, moving components and wires around.
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HI Mark, Sounds to me like you have a ground loop issue on the phono that somehow or other the Aural Thrills phono cable is masking, since you have tried many other phono cables with the same issue. Fix the problem first, THEN look at another phono cable. Here is the best link to lead yo thru fixing the hum issue-https://www.sound-smith.com/hum-and-or-noise-problems |
It sounds like a trial period/ money back might be the way to go here. @grk - I will give Alex a call.
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As an observation:
Alternatively if there is some cabling or grounding issue that can be fixed then it would likely help across the board if you have other sources than just a TT. |
I have a luxman integrated and tried running a regular interconnect with a separate ground wire I made. It was almost 8' long which I'm not sure might be pushing it. It was from the output of a technics SL1100 table. I was getting the most insane hum that was radically changing when I was moving the cable around. I moved the cable and tried my VPI Weisline phono cable which is 5' long and a dedicated phono cable. I was totally quiet with the VPI cable. I ordered an 8' Audio Envy phono cable which I have another one in another system that I had extensively compared to the VPI cable and I like it much better than the VPI. I'll try and post back once I get the longer Audio envy cable and hopefully I get the good sound and no hum |