louisl
Responses from louisl
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Austinbob, my phono preamp is an Acoustech PH-1P is solid state. My preamp is an Audible Illusions L3. It is tubed, but only two. I replaced the tubes today, and that eliminated the hiss! Now I'm just dealing with a low level hum, at high volumes. | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Elinor...yes, I have the ground wire from the tt, connected to the phono preamp. I tried running it to the headamp, but that made the hum much worse. | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Replying to Al.....I do apologize to you, and to all who read my posts, as I haven't updated my system info here on A'gon for years. What is shown is out of date, and my current system is totally different now. #1). So....in reply to your statemen... | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Lewm, I am hearing a low level 60hz, hum. The hiss now is gone, as I have replaced the two tubes in my Audible Illusions L3 preamp. My phono stage is a Acoustech PH-1P. The head amp is a Hagerman Piccolo. Oh, I respectfully disagree that someone w... | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Bifwynne, I replaced the tubes in my preamp, and no more hiss. Still a low level hum, but very low. I'm still going to work on it, because I want it, as another A'goner said, "dead quite". | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? To all:I'm beginning to think that because I'm hearing mostly hiss, that it may be the tubes in my Audible Illusions L3 preamp. I bought the preamp new Christmas, 2012, and the tubes are still the original tubes. Going on 3 years now. Time to orde... | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? To answer Swampwalker above:Thanks for the info about the KAB calculator.Also, I have tried the lower setting on my phono preamp, but then I have to turn up the gain on preamp, and thus the noise. | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Bifwynne:I'm starting to think that it may be the tubes in my preamp (Audible Illusions L3). They are 2 1/2 years old, so it is very possible (maybe even probable) that it's time to replace them! | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? To answer Bifwynne above:Yes, I really like my Kleos too, but this noise is really starting to bug me! My tt is a VPI Classic 3, and yes, I guess it could be the tt motor, but how can I check that? | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? To answer ETBABY above:All of my gear is plugged into a Running Springs Audio - Jacob PC. | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? To answer Alan above:My tt is grounded to my phono preamp, and my phono preamp is grounded to my preamp. I have tried grounding my head amp to the tt...bad idea, it hummed like crazy. Then I tried grounding my head amp to my phono preamp.....same ... | |
| Love / Hate relationship with vinyl? Thanks Swampwalker. I'm trying to avoid a SUT due to the fact that they are so cartridge specific. I like my Kleos, but I guarantee you, at some point I'll want to try something else! Currently, I'm using an older Acoustech PH-1P phono stage (desi... | |
| Will power cables improve a VPI Classic 3 tt? Thanks to all for your responses. Seems that the consensus is no improvement when it comes to using an upgraded power on a turntable. Again, thanks! | |
| Care to recommend a preamp? The CAT volume control is just plain wrong. It's way too course (I believe each click on the volume is 3db). It's too bad, as the CAT preamp is a very good sounding preamp (I used to own one). With this preamp, on too many recordings, the volume w... | |
| To Couple or Decouple? Thanks for the suggestion Listener57. I'll check it out. |