Where is noise coming from?


Hello!

I need your help. I hear a "soft nuisance noise" from one of my speakers everytime I play my basis turntable. This irritating soft noise switches to the other speaker as I switch the phono cable channels. This DOES NOT happen when I play my digital/cds., only during vinyl playing.
I have a klyne phono preamp and SFL 2.
Is the cartridge(transfiguration) the culprit? or is it the phono preamp? Tonearm wiring(graham)?
Please help.
umaasa

Showing 1 response by plato

This sounds like a cartridge alignment, antiskate, azimuth, or tracking force problem as some of the others have suggested. To check that, you can go through the adjustments again, particularly the ones I've mentioned, or reverse the channels via the cartridge pins and see if the noise switches channels. If the noise switches channels, you'll know it's related to the cartridge. If readusting the cartridge settings doesn't cure it, then you may have a bad cartridge.

If the noise doesn't change channels when you switch the cartridge leads(I'm betting it will), then the problem is likely a bad connection somewhere between the arm wiring and the input to the phono stage.