Some article. TY. I guess it would not harm anything by investing in one.
Cabinet resonance problem with Marantz MM9340 amplifier
The MM9340 amp is a four channel Class D amplifier producing 275W into 8 Ohms and 400W into 4 Ohms. I am using it to drive four subwoofers, which it can drive with ease. The problem is, the cabinet resonates seriously and appears to be in beat with the music. It does not appear to be airborne related nor is it originating from the stand. The resonance appears to generate from within the amp itself. Has anyone experienced a similar problem such as this? Any suggested solutions?
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There are a lot of options out there. iFi makes one, although a bit tiny. I bought this one from these guys - https://www.atlhifi.com/product-category/fully-assembled-devices/ If you do buy from them, I suggest you don't use US Mail, as it takes forever to arrive. It is well made, rugged, and clearly will do the job. There are other options from other manufacturers, too. You are right, it won't hurt that is for sure. |
A final follow up on this resonance problem. I covered the inside of the unit with DynaMat Extreme. Turns out, it helped significantly! I put two layers under the transformer and that seemed to help as well. It reduced the resonance a bit but more importantly, it cleaned up the entire bass region. The bass has much more "impact", you can feel it "hit" which before was just more of a muddled mess. I told my wife the bass now had a "visceral impact", to which she agreed I also noticed that switching from an 18g generic power cord to a home brew 10g shielded cord made a very slight improvement in the muddiness as well. Thinking I am on a roll here with isolating the transformer, I added four more layers of DynaMat Extreme under the transformer, which required changing to a 5/16", 5 inch long bolt to secure it. That is one inch longer than the factory bolt. It should not matter with a toroidal transformer but I picked up a non magnetic stainless steel bolt and hardware. I also added a bit more DynaMat Extreme in a few places that still had bare metal. I could not add any to the bottom of the chassis since there wasn't room for it and the PCBAs. I thought about putting on the outside bottom of the chassis but I didn't want to mess around with the DynaMat Extreme on the outside of the unit. The improvement wasn't as dramatic this time as before, but the improvement is now to the point where I can happily live with the result. The fact is, probably 90% of what I play has bass but not in the extreme bottom end that aggravates the resonance. It was then I remembered I had a Panega AC9 power cord I bought just for this amplifier, but removed it when I rearranged equipment in the rack. So I installed that and it made a slight improvement over the generic 18g cable. To be fair, the improvement was only in the deep, subterrain bass region. The bass and upper bass wasn't affected as much as I could determine. Thanks to all who contributed ideas to my problem here! |
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