Subsonic Rumble Solutions


I know many of you have tried to address this issue. Short of buying or building a subsonic filter (that will/may negatively affect your transparency) - what methods reduce subsonics (meaning the pumping of woofers and subs when a record is playing)?

My system:
I have a DIY VPI Aries clone with a 1" thick Corian plinth, a Moerch DP6 tonearm and Dynavector 20X-H cartridge. This sits on a maple shelf. The shelf sits on squash balls. The balls sit on another maple board floating in a 3" deep sand box. All this on a rack spiked to a cement floor. The phono stage is a Hagerman Trumpet (no built in subsonic filter and very wide bandwidth). I use the 1 piece Delrin clamp on the TT. Yes, I clean records thoroughly and there are no obvious warps, especially after being clamped.

So my isolation is very good - no thumps or thwacks on the rack coming through the speakers. But if I turn the sub on I get that extra low end pumping on some records that hurts my ears. Mostly I leave the sub off when playing vinyl, but I would like to use it if possible.

There was some brief discussion of this on Albert Porter's system thread. I'm hoping to get more answers here.

So ... what methods have you tried to reduce subsonics that you have found effective?

Thanks,
Bob
ptmconsulting

Showing 1 response by calle_jr

I have bass cone movements every 30 seconds lasting for a few seconds. It is not really subsonic, but I think related to this topic anyway.
It is constant and audible with or without music playing but it only happens on the phono stage, not on the other inputs.

I have a Lyra Skala connected to a Lyra Erodion stepup and then an Audio Note M5 Phono.
The earthing is connected from the cartridge to the stepup and then continues to the AN M5 Phono.

The preamp sounds wonderful, but when the cone movements occur, it blends with the music resulting in clearly audible distorsion.

Do you have any idea what it may be or what I can do?