lewm
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| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops I said dirt not static electricity. Static is not inserted at the factory. The culprit is us . | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops I wouldn't argue that from a perfectionist point of view it is not a good idea to clean "new" LPs, but I do play new LPs right out of the jacket without cleaning them, very often, and I cannot recall a problem due to dirt (ticks and pops). Sure, ... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Clean your stylus, if you have not already done so. | |
| Lyra and OMA Mijo, Atlas preferred over your previous love, MSL? | |
| My Impossible hum issue. etbaby, I don't think an isolation transformer would solve the OP's actual problem, since the short in the ground connection occurs AFTER where the ISO Max transformer would be inserted, between the AC source and the power cords. He had an interru... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Holmz, I have been saying forever and I’m sure ad nauseam that I don’t think it’s DC. So if you’re addressing me, you’re preaching to the converted. We agree. | |
| My Impossible hum issue. Am I missing something? We do know the cause of this problem, and it’s been cured. Yes? A defective IC. | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Like I wrote above, my research tells me the OP's preamplifier avoids use of a coupling capacitor by virtue of having a servo mechanism to balance out DC offset at its outputs. Right there, that ought to prevent DC from getting to the woofer. Bu... | |
| My Impossible hum issue. More to the point, you might contact Pangea or your vendor and ask for a return authorization, on the basis that their ICs seem to have an internal short circuit on the ground side. By "internal" I mean that the issue probably is inside the insula... | |
| My Impossible hum issue. Also, you haven’t ruled out an internal break in an IC wire, most likely the phono cable but could be elsewhere, that interrupts grounding. To check that just insert some cheap alternative ICs in place of what you’re now using. For one, try the So... | |
| My Impossible hum issue. Russ’s guess is as good as mine. You’ve eliminated most other options. | |
| My Impossible hum issue. Could there be a broken ground connection inside the jacket of one of your ICs? | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Ughh.. Holmz, DC will move the diaphragm in one direction only, yes. Constant DC of one polarity will eventually damage the voice coil. I suppose intermittent DC pulses could appear as if a low frequency AC source, but….The question is whether the... | |
| Phono Stage upgrade to complement Dohmann Helix One Mk 2 Helix is one of the best I’ve ever heard. | |
| What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion? Both you and Raul referenced the same algorithm on Vinyl Engine. I see where it has a readout for distortion once you plug in the known values for any particular tonearm, but I have no idea how it comes up with distortion %, mathematically. I gu... |