You need to have subwoofer and turntable plugged into the same circuit otherwise you’re grounding your table to your subwoofer if sub is connected on another circuit and that creates a ground loop. Or disconnect sub ground wire from phono stage. Why do you even ground the sub?
Help! New Nagaoka MP 500 Cart Makes Hum Ground Noise
I have the new Nagaoka Mp 500 cart installed on my Techniques 1200G turntable connected to my Luxman 595 amp. When I turn the volume up, I hear a hum in the speakers. If I remove the cart from the arm, the hum goes away so I know it's the cart. It's with the original Techniqs head shell. I didn't have the issue with the Oltofon 2m Black LVM cart.
Aside from that, I like the MP 500 a lot. Sounds good. But I am freaking out... not sure what to do about the hum grounding noise?!?
On my luxman, I have both the turntable and the REL sub on the ground in the photo.
Here are the photos on imgur https://imgur.com/a/yEwvvAq
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Thanks @audphile1 but it did not help. Good idea, though. |
Also, if you have any network components close to your phono stage or cartridge you will subject it to RFI. Routers, wifi extenders, streamers should should be at least 1-1.5m away from phono stsge or cartridge. If turntable is close to amplifier the power transformer in the amp may also cause interference. Move it away. |
@audphile1 I am new the turntable hobby so I am learning... if you can please tell me: 1) For the Luxman 595 amp which is about $12,000.00 - should I expect no noise in the mm line? Also, the hum is there but less so even if I am listening to my streamer. I have to unplug the turntable RCA plugs completely to get rid of background noise compelety.... is that to be expected also? 2) Would I have this same issue if I would of bought the 891 Moon preamp with it’s built in phono stage? That one is 25k but I wouldn’t want to go down that road if the expectation is I would get a hum of any kind in the phono stage. I can turn up the music above the MP-500 but still the hum is pretty loud where it would be upsetting not to have a black background.
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