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| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! I'm running a VPI HW-19 MK IV. I too had a static issue. When humidity was low, upon removing a freshly played record from the platter static would discharge from the record to the cartridge. My VPI has the Delrin, lead platter which is used wi... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @frogman Thinking more about your comment regarding phase issues. I know what reversed plus to minus on one channel does to the sound but I was not sure what I should have noticed when the two grounds are reversed with respect to one another. I... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @frogman My aluminum wand is Red/Black, White/Blue (no green) and the Blue pin on my VDH is very dark blue. That combined with not paying close enough attention caused reversal. And, absolutely, the sound quality was substantially degraded. Not... | |
| Phono stage hum Well, my Grover phono cables arrived and did not solve my hum problem. I did, however, track down the source of the hum. Much to my embarrassment I had reversed the left and right ground wires on my cartridge. I reversed them and the hum was go... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners VPI's HUM PROBLEMBefore I get started, so that no one's manhood be offended, please recognize this as HUMOR.That said, here I stand thoroughly embarrassed and disapointed. Embarrassed that after 50 years in this hobby I still don't seem to be abl... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? @o_holter Very interesting, your last few posts. I have noticed on some LPs there can be a hum in the runout grooves and have always supposed it was on the record. I don't see why there could not also be subsonic signals in the runout grooves th... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? @o_holter Well, I don't know it is the TT as opposed to a warped or otherwise flawed LP. If the pumping is being caused by the record I can think of only 2 issues: 1) The records are warped or otherwise flawed and you're not going to solve that ... | |
| Why are my woofers pumping? @o_holter I must echo armasphere. Pumping once per revolution is not electronics. It has to be bearing or platter related. It acts like a warped record. Have you checked to make sure your platter is dead level? Put a small bubble level on th... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @ct0517 my pleasure, Chris😇 | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @pegasus Thank you for the translation. What I find rather strange is that moving my loom around produces no change in the hum while moving the interconnects around has a significant effect on the volume of the hum. Only explanation I can think ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Well, thanks Frogman and Pegasus (I think). Pegasus, while I think I understand your basic proposition, you are way beyond my level of electrical knowledge. In any event, my VDH Black Beauty is not the low output model. I don't remember precise... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Good morning Chris,Thanks for the thorough analysis. You may just sell me on a loom yet. My current ICs are so short there is no room to move them more than a couple of inches. I have a second set that are a little longer I will try moving arou... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @ct0517 I don't have a straight in loom like you. My loom is terminated in a Cardas phono box with RCA fremale plugs. From the box to preamp I'm using 1 ft lengths of unshielded silver interconnect. The phono inputs on my preamp are on the si... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @slaw . Yes, I'd be interested in your impressions of the Huffman cables. I've ordered his current Empress. Not that I was dissatisfied with the sq of the current cables I'm using in the phono stage. They are quite revealing without being brigh... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @frogman and others with HW-19. While "checking things out" the other day I noticed at very high volume levels I have a hum in both channels with my HW-19/ET II/VDH Black Beauty rig. The hum is volume sensitive. It is not present with the Garra... |