Another "kinda-newbie" head scratcher


No matter what Phonostage I use, no matter which cartridge or cables, I get an annoying distortion sound from my speakers kind of like the sound of AM in between stations if anyone here is old enough to remember that sound. Doesn't happen on the digital side. 

 

Any ideas? 

ericrhodes1

@retiredaudioguy it stopped! I thought I had tried that before to no effect. But just having the turntable disconnected, eliminated the noise. Huh. I have Cardas phono cables on now, they replaced uber expensive AudioQuests when I first noticed the problem. 

@yogiboy @retiredaudioguy @audphile1 @larri @lewm @imintohifi 

 

I found the culprit. Power line ethernet extender. Soon as I unplug that the noise disappeared I thought I had it relatively isolated on an entirely different outlet but apparently it’s breaker dependent or something so . Thanks for your help guys I’ve got a new trouble to figure out. Namely how to get internet into this room. 

If your streamer can accept WiFi try that.  If not there are WiFi to Ethernet adapters (e.g. IOGear), usually WPS enabled so pretty easy to set up.  Plug it into an AC receptacle within a Cat5 of the streamer.  I used this for an Aurender streamer.