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So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2
I observed the weirdest thing I have ever seen in audio. With the cartridge positioned above the record, tone arm locked up and platter spinning, the woofers were pumping on my system. I googled every permutation of query I could think of but came back with no hits. That’s when I decided to video the problem- link below:
I could type out all the details but the video pretty much covers everything. I thought ya’ll might be interested in this.
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@mitchellcp - thank you very much for reporting back on this. I admit to rubbing a record on my head until my hair stood on end trying to reproduce this when static was suggested, but to no avail - though I only have single ended connections. The static must still be there when in single ended mode, so I wonder why it does not create the issue? I know that you get more gain with the XLR, but those woofer excursions in the video were quite large. I would expect if that was it, you would just have smaller woofer excursions with single ended connections. |
This makes zero sense to me… The cart is generally a thing that generates a current, and the electrical field would seem to be difficult to get into a twisted set of differential wires. And to get enough charge on the LP to merry-go-round in a pile of electrons, and generate a magnetic field, would be difficult. And to do it with Every LP you tried? I think I am back to the @lewm idea of oscillation in the phono stage. That would either need some different loading, or to block the low freq with a high pass capacitor in-line. The later could ameliorate the problem, but it does not illuminate the mechanism. |
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