Why do my bass drivers shake violently listening to vinyl


Hello Gon'ers,

Help needed. I took the grills off my new Vandersteen Treo CT's recently and noticed that when listening to vinyl, the bass drivers shake violently, meaning the amount and frequency in which they travel in and out. Then I played the same pieces of music from Tidal and they were relatively calm.

Is this some kind of feedback loop causing this? Has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks!
Joe
audionoobie

Showing 1 response by bobbydd

I had this exact problem about which I posted a month or 2 ago.

In my case, not only did I have the wild woofer pumping, but also not enough gain from my phono stage.

I tried isolation first, no improvement.

Then I tried a much better and more expensive turntable, arm, cartridge solution.  Still, the woofer pumping persisted.

Ultimately, I fixed the issue with a new photo stage, both with more gain AND a rumble filter.  The latter is inaudible BTW, other than resolving the woofer dance while spinning vinyl.

Hope this helps!