Ground loop hum from Turntable


Not sure what is causing this but, i took home a Rega P3-24 to demo, hooked it up to my Plinius 9200 and was getting a loud hum. I noticed Rega does not include a ground wire on there interconnects. My dealer indicated that the ground is done internally. I am limited as to where i can put this table. I have a Billy Bags AV component rack and all my gear is on this rack including my TV. I assume this hum is being picked up from the other components. Any suggestions as to what i can do to greatly reduce or elimiate this hum. Thanks for your input.

System:
Plinius 9200
Naim cdp 5i-2
Speakers Dynaudio Focus 140's & 200c center
Sony dvp 9100es
NAD HT receiver T762
Cables All FMS
TV Sony XBR 960
brian27b

Showing 1 response by amandarae

Wow! Many responded but forgot to address the real issue.... The Rega uses a grounding scheme where in only one ground (not the right term, it should be negative phase) is common between + of both L&R signal. If your phono preamp is not configured the same, it may result to a hum.

What to do? Try to connect the negative phase of the L & R signal input at the phono preamp together or disconnect one of the ground from the input IC's. Also, try to ground the body of the arm to the phono preamp ground.

Assuming that the one you are having is really a ground loop problem and not anything else of course. The posters above mentioned isolating the position of the table and the phono preamp from the rest of the equipment. That is a good suggestion in order to find out if youare picking up RFI or really have a ground issue.

I do not know a lot but I experienced the same thing using my Origin Live Silver and rega 300 arm before.

Goodluck!