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Tonearm microphonics

When I have the volume at my normal level & tap the arm (not whilst playing vinyl) it is slightly amplified... Is it possible to significantly reduce/eliminate this?

Current set up - Roksan Xerxes 20plus, Origin Live Encounter tonearm (thin cork ring at the base) with Lyra Skala.

Apologies if this is a stupid question!
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infection OP
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Thanks for your input bimasta & bdp24.

It appears then that the only solution is to upgrade & not have the arm modified even by Origin Live...
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onhwy61
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You could just do nothing and enjoy the high quality sound reproduction you already have.
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infection OP
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I have been enjoying it but there's always room for improvement...!
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nandric
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By touching the arm you are causing the so called ''ground loop''.

There must be something wrong with either your phono-cable

or the tonearm ground. I own + 40 carts with no hum problem

at all except by my most expensive cart; the Allaerts MC 2 gold.

The problem must be in the cart but by Expert Stylus in UK they

were not able to discovere anything wrong with the cart. No

wonder nobody knows how and why hum problem arise and

conseqently how to get rid of it. ''Trying'' is the only advise one

can get.

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rauliruegas
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Dear @infection : What you are listening is totally normal because that tonearm has mounted a very sensitive microphone in that Skala cartridge ( or any cartridge, it does not matters. ) that when we tap a tonearm we can have that kind of tiny " sound ". Nothing wrong with that.

Now, the level of that tiny sound  is different from tonearm to other one depending on the tonearm overall design and how well is dampening it self and of course the cartridge model.

Any one of us can test it and in more or less way we can have that experience. Maybe in some systems the system volume needs to be higher than in others and depends too where we tap/hit the tonearm.

Now, if you are satisfied with what you are listening in your LPs just forgeret about and enjoy what you have.


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R. 
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