Trying to reduce noise while listening to tube phono
Experiment with phono lead routing. Sometimes they like being together, sometimes apart, and sometimes even a small change makes a difference. I use Scotch tape once I get them where I want. This has already worked. I use a wall shelf for my TT and I'm guessing that the lead was picking up noise from the power line inside the wall. When I moved the lead away from it, the noise reduced by 50%. Not completely gone but now way below the threshold of the music. Thanks again! |
dhcod you did the right thing getting the low nose tubes. Assuming they are the lowest noise tubes you can get that is as good as it is going to get with that phono preamp. It is called tube rush. Your preamp is fine. This is much different than a hum which can be caused by a lot of different things. I'm sure once you put the needle down you can't hear it. As the background noise of vinyl greatly exceeds the noise of even noisy phono stages. |
That is what I thought too except as millercarbon pointed out, there's more too it. Until I got the phono leads into a better position, I didn't realize how much noise I was dealing with beyond tube rush. It sure sounded like tube rush but it wasn't. |
