Turntable as tuner?


My turntable seems to be picking up a radio station. Also {maybe this is related?), I have to turn the volume way up (compared to the cd player) in order to listen to records at a reasonable level. The turntable is a Pro-ject RM4 w/Project 9 tonearm & Sumiko Pearl MM cartridge connected to a Pro-ject Phono Box and B&K PT3 preamp. All the connections (including the ground) seem tight. Any ideas?
ezside

Showing 1 response by sensorman

Does the station you hear change when you tune the tuner? If not, then bleed through is not the issue. You are receiving RFI frm the station. The high gain required for the phono board acts much like an RF preamplifier and he input stage of the preamp is acting like a detector. Try som clamp on RFI filters from Radio Shack. Also try some better interconnects between turntable and preamp and preamp to your line stage. Could also be a damaged ground in your tone arm. In any case, sounds more like RFI than bleedthrough since bleed through should be just as bad with a CD playing through the same set of inputs.

sensorman