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Noise...

Wonder if it could be motor noise? Seems like there is a minute hum from the TT motor when the platter is spinning and I haven’t dropped the stylus yet.
 
Another thing I’m having trouble with is tracking ... record will be playing just fine, and then my left speaker will go out and if I stomp the floor near a certain spot, the speaker will cut back in and it will be fine. Seems to do this on high frequency notes and really intense passages in the music. I’ve checked the anti skate and counter balance weights and they are right in line with all the manuals, and I’ve also checked the problem with playing music through my phone and the speakers don’t cut in or out.
 
sqlsavior said:
A new record of excellent quality should be subjectively noise-free, as quiet as a CD
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LOL The only way to think vinyl has a low of a noise floor as a CD is if they are deaf as a stone. Especially on quiet passages when the volume is high.
 
bhrb75 said:
Another thing I’m having trouble with is tracking ... record will be playing just fine, and then my left speaker will go out and if I stomp the floor near a certain spot, the speaker will cut back in and it will be fine. Seems to do this on high frequency notes and really intense passages in the music. I’ve checked the anti skate and counter balance weights and they are right in line with all the manuals, and I’ve also checked the problem with playing music through my phone and the speakers don’t cut in or out.
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You sure this is a tracking issue and not a loose connection between (or in!) the cartridge and (or in!) the phono input on, or in the phono preamp section of, your receiver?

EDIT: Oops, just noticed post #25 asks this too.
 
imral3 said:
What is the source of the iPhone version? Streaming music service or iTunes/Apple music (I'm not up to date on "Apple speak" these days) download? What is the quality of the file?
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It's all noise, but what had me alarmed was that, @ fist glance, I misread imral3's post as including the phrase "Apple steak". Forget all the hearing tests -- it's high time my vision was tested!
 
bhrb75 said:
Another thing I’m having trouble with is tracking ... record will be playing just fine, and then my left speaker will go out and if I stomp the floor near a certain spot, the speaker will cut back in and it will be fine. Seems to do this on high frequency notes and really intense passages in the music. I’ve checked the anti skate and counter balance weights and they are right in line with all the manuals, and I’ve also checked the problem with playing music through my phone and the speakers don’t cut in or out.
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Responded to this in the other thread you started.

Next time try excersizing the controls instead of jumping up and down, if this works it's time for some deoxit.
 
sqlsavior said:
Did you not read my second post (#20)?
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Yes, I did. Inserting the word "subjective " in a description does not make that description any less silly. For example: If I said, "subjectively a freight train is as quiet as a hummingbird " , that would not mean it had any basis in reality.

Can vinyl be very quiet and sound great? You bet. Can vinyl be as quiet as a CD? Never. There is always a lot of subjects in audio that are subjective. But some things are not, and sound floor is one of them.
 
Mystic said:
It's all noise, but what had me alarmed was that, @ fist glance, I misread imral3's post as including the phrase "Apple steak". Forget all the hearing tests -- it's high time my vision was tested!
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Either that, or you're hungry!?! (enlarged so you can read it) ;)
 
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