Thanks @lewm I will run a couple tests tonight.
I know little to nothing on things electrical but what you said makes sense.
should know more later.
Transimpedance has too much gain?
I’m running an AT33PTG/II through an Andover Spinstage. Overall it sounds amazing but there definitely an emphasis on the 1khz region that makes some records hard to listen to. Its louder than the 20/20 and I have been swapping out parts to find the cause.
could the phonostage be adding too much gain?
Thanks @lewm I will run a couple tests tonight. I know little to nothing on things electrical but what you said makes sense.
should know more later. |
@gochurchgo I wasn't familiar with that Love album but listening to it on streaming it is easy to see how that guitar could quickly become irritating. I don't listen to that kind of music but I have had other preamps that produces what I call glare in that same frequency band. It would only happen on 10-15% of the tracks I played but I couldn't stand it and I ended up selling that gear. Sadly, all I can tell you is I'm not hearing that with my Spinstage. Assuming you like everything else about it I would return the unit and get another one. @lewm's suggestion that there might be a faulty part effecting the RIAA curve is plausible to me. Also, I think the Lino C only takes balanced inputs. No idea if your turntable supports that but it has stopped me from trying one. |
@pinwa thanks. I may do that. |
pinwa, Any tonearm can be easily adapted to provide balanced output from the cartridge, because nearly all cartridges in common use are naturally a balanced source. We use them in single-ended mode most often, but that is just because we ground one side of the output in order to use the RCA inputs on a typical single-ended phono stage. And of course, the turntable is an innocent bystander, when it comes to the signal output. It's all about how the tonearm wires are terminated. |