It sounds like somewhere (probably associated with the tonearm mechanism) there is a loose or intermittent ground connection. Does it sound sort of like the popping you get when you plug interconnects into your preamp while the volume level is up and the amp is on? (Well, we were all young and stooopid once!) You'll have to check your tonearm out carefully. Does this happen in one or both speakers (I'm wondering if it's the tonearm internal wiring or perhaps a cartridge lead or clip)
Electrical problems?
I have this plops from my speakers during LP playback. They definately do not happen with CDs.
I believe that loud passages trigger these.
Also when I use the cueing in my ET2 tonearm sometimes there are these horrible noises, similar I believe to the plops during playback but in a raft mode as I move the cueing lever.
I have grounded the Teres motor pod to the middle socket in an electrical outlet, along with a wire to the grounding screw in the preamp (this ATC-1 Air Tight has a two prong connector without ground), even a wire to the metal axis of the vta adjusting lever in my ET2 tonearm. I have tried connecting and removing these for different combinations but this is not gone.
I also have a miniature tester for gounding from RadioShack to make sure that the grounds are correct in the outlets, and to cap it up I am now using a Monster 2000 power strip JUST to try to spot a solution to this problem and I believe that with the grounding improvement from using the tester and this power strip I have been able to reduce it but I am not sure and definatly not altogether.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
I believe that loud passages trigger these.
Also when I use the cueing in my ET2 tonearm sometimes there are these horrible noises, similar I believe to the plops during playback but in a raft mode as I move the cueing lever.
I have grounded the Teres motor pod to the middle socket in an electrical outlet, along with a wire to the grounding screw in the preamp (this ATC-1 Air Tight has a two prong connector without ground), even a wire to the metal axis of the vta adjusting lever in my ET2 tonearm. I have tried connecting and removing these for different combinations but this is not gone.
I also have a miniature tester for gounding from RadioShack to make sure that the grounds are correct in the outlets, and to cap it up I am now using a Monster 2000 power strip JUST to try to spot a solution to this problem and I believe that with the grounding improvement from using the tester and this power strip I have been able to reduce it but I am not sure and definatly not altogether.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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