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Woofer sucking in and out

I have a problem with my analogue set up that once it starts play, the woofers of my speaker will move in and out like crazy, unrelated to the music! It relates with volume as when the volume is low, the woofers will not move as much. May it has to do with oscillation between cartridge and arm but my set up is new. The turntable is Acoustic Solid-Transparent and rega301 arm with cardas wiring and weight mods, Herron VTSP 3A pre and VTPH phono. I wonder if placement has anything to do with it or power connection.
I hope someone who has the same problem before can give me some hints.
Thanks.
luna

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atmasphere
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I got rid of woofer excursion by paying attention to the effective mass of the arm/cartridge system. Once that was set up right, I had the added benefit of flawless tracking, in fact a lot of LPs that I thought had some wear turned out to have none at all.
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atmasphere
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Vinyladdict, just for the record (if you will pardon the pun) I have a Westerx LP mastering system, and it does not do any mixing whatsoever of the channels at any frequency, and every attempt is made in the design of the cutter itself to enhance stereo separation- at all frequencies.

Now I can't say how other LP mastering systems work- I only have exposure to my own- but the Westerex 3D cutting system did a lot of the stereo LPs made in the US. So I am regarding this comment

"1. When records are made, frequencies below about 150Hz are combined to mono. This is done to avoid large out of phase groove excursions.

with suspicion.
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