Any Allnic users out there? Hum problem.


I brought this up previously but was not very specific.

I bought an H3000 phono stage which I liked very much and was perfectly silent. I then bought an HA Head Amp which had a slight hum. Shortly after I got it one of the transistors blew(I believe,) it went dead and I had to return it to Korea for repair.

Since I've gotten it back the hum is worse. When I play a record the sound covers the hum but when it stops the hum can be heard and felt from the speakers where I am sitting about 8 feet away. I asked the maker about this and he told me he sent it back to me in perfect condition so that's a dead end.

Is a hum to be expected? Do you live with it? Is it a grounding problem? I asked the maker about this as well and he did not respond to the query.

I would greatly appreciate any advice from Allnic users and especially those with the HA3000. Do you get a hum? Is it noticeable when an lp isn't playing? Any grounding suggestions?

My amp is a VTL S200 with an Ayre pre K5 xe mp.

VTL super scoutmaster with 3D tonearm.

Conditioner is an Isotek Sigma.

As I said everything is perfectly quiet until I turn on the HA.

I want to fix this because I like the Allnic sound enormously and don't want to be without the HA. It really is wonderful.

Thanks for any thoughts you may have on my situation.

vindanpar
What cartridge are you using? As said above, the issue is unlikely the H3000, it is the head amp causing the hum. I fought hum with my HA3000 when I used low output carts. My experience was that if the cart output was under .3 to .35mv, there would be hum. When using a cart with .5mv, it was fairly quiet but never dead quiet. 

Tried two different HA3000's and same results.

Hi vetterone, glad to ''see'' you back. Whie hum is considered to

be a kind of enigma I was confronted with this problem only

twice: with Glanz MFG 61 and Allaerts MC 2 ''gold finish''.

My enigma is ''why my Lord ?'' with my  best ever MM as well

MC cart???

The question, Nandric, is why you think the Lord gives a darn.  For me, it's is there a Lord at all.

Dear Lew, You are my English teacher. That is to say that whenever

I don't understand some English expression I ask you for

explanation. However methaphors belong to other kinds of

expressions. I also know that the expression ''Lord'' has no bearer.

To put this in linguistic terms: ''Lord'' is a name without reference.

So ''my Lord'' is a way of speaking. I am really wondering, why the

hell my two best carts have hum problem? I would be much less

disturbed by any other of my 50 carts (grin).

Nandric, There must be an equivalent in your language of "the devil is in the details".