Raven One Motor Noise Problem

With the help from others, I have resolved the so-called noise problem in my Raven One. Actually, this was not the Raven's problem at all.

After putting an MDF shelf under my existing slate shelf that the Raven sits on, the motor is dead quiet...not a peep.

The problem was caused by the creation of standing waves due to my platform configuration. I will figure out a new leveling system and do away with the inverted audio points.

Thanks to all!

Nice to hear of the problem resolution.

Now that's sorted, can you tell us a bit more about the Miyajima Shilabe cartridge you'd mentioned many a moon ago? What arm did you decide on in the end?

Have you got your Shilabe yet Jasper?

Yes . Running it in very slowly , may be just under 20 hour as of last night. I noted substantial improvement at 10 hour and it's continuing to improve.

Jaspert is already ahead of me because I finally got my power amp back from repair...it took twelve weeks. I'm debating whether or not to blast the manufacturer over the net waves.

I'm coming up on ten hours but noticed great improvement after a few hours. Remember, my Tron Seven and Raven are brand new as well so things started out a bit hard and constrained. That changed quickly, and the system has opened up and is getting soulful.

Sorry guys, but I have no apples to compare the Shilabe to as my last cartridge was a Grado Sonata on a SOTA.

I will say that I've never had sound like this, and was recently blown away by Neil Young's Live at Massey Hall. Hearing and saying that there are improvements to the sound in every imaginable area, yes, what's more defining for me is that the system has completely changed in its ability to emotionally deliver the goods.

Oh yea...I'm using my existing SME 309 arm. It's hard for me to imagine further break-in improvements yet to come, and more so from a better arm. Wow...more fun ahead.