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Please Help My TT is acting like a tuner

I have a Rega p9 turntable, Shelter 501 cart, Bat pk5 phono stage, Viva 300b amplifier and Galante Symphony loudspeakers. I never had any problems with my system until I moved.

Ever since I moved into my new home, I have been picking up radio stations through my TT. The oldies station comes through loud and clear every time I try to play a record!! I have tried everything: powerwraps, ferrite clamps, grounding, lifting the ground, aluminum foil, etc. The oldies station does not stop playing!!!

I am pretty sure it is the TT because the station does not play when the TT is not connected but the BAT phono is loud by itself and is making a crackling whurring sound.

Anyway I am beyond frustrated and am ready to sell my analog gear and just use digital. I have moved my system into every room in my house to no avail, I still hear the oldies station

Please help if you know what I can do. The Rega tonearm cable is hardwired. Is this my problem? Should I get a TT that has the ability to change out cables so that I can use a really powerfully shielded cable? Do the tubes need replaced in the BAT? Or will nothing work and should I either deal with the oldies station or focus on digital?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

rich62

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mstram
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Rich, do you happen to live in the Neenah, Wisconsin? I just replaced my old cartridge with a Shelter 901 and lo and behold "...WVBO, the Valley's best oldies..." Are all Shelter cartidges tuned to the same station?

My prior cartridge was a Sumiko Alchemist IIb with a metal body, 2 mV output, and no oldies! I am certain the problem lies within the cartridge itself and not the wires. I think I live near a transmission tower. I can even listen to the oldies through my telephone should I choose to do so. There is no problem when my Classe Six preamp is switched to other inputs, and as I said before when I had a different cartridge. Does one need to consider where they live when buying a cartridge? Somebody posted on my original thread http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1105476659 that you can have such problems if you live too close to a radio tower. Am I going to be forced to sell this great-sounding brand new cartridge and go back to a HOMC to avoid hearing "The House of The Rising Sun" during the quiet passages of my favorite classical music?
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