Wow, that VTA must be way out of adjustment to have the tonearm touch the record. The TT comes with a tool to adjust it.
Rumble showed up on NEW record???
So I bought my first new record in years, in fact I bought several of them at once at my local Cracker Barrel. (Doesn’t everybody buy records at Cracker Barrel?) What caught my eye was the newly re-mastered Revolution album, and there was Abbey Road by the same crew, and Thriller by Michael Jackson, an Eagle’s Double Album. When I got them home, and had the time, I dropped the Revolution album on, but two things were immediately obvious: (1) There was a terrible rumble preventing me from getting much volume at all out of the speakers, (2) The anti-skate was much two strong; I couldn’t even get it to play the last two tracks on side 1, the stylus pulled out of the groove and slid back toward track 1.
I pulled the phono leads out of my pre-amp phono inputs and inserted my ELAC phono stage into the chain into a line input on the pre-amp. The ELAC had a rumble filter, but it had no effect.
I don’t use my turntable often, but it has a new Sumiko high-output moving coil cartridge installed, the Songbird, and it doesn’t have many miles on it yet. It was professionally installed for me, and until my experience with the Revolution album, it worked just fine. I was very pleased. The anti-skate, however, is not easily adjustable: just a small weight on a very fine piece of fishing line. I could add weight easily, but taking it off would require disassembly, replacement of the weight, and reassembly. Frankly I found the antI-skate the most difficult part of the setup the Music Hall 5.3.
The only change to the system that might contribute to the rumble is the installation of the new (to me) Bowers & Wilkins 801 Series 2 speakers. There is a lot more sound pressure in the room when those babies fire up. The turntable is mounted on top of the Yggdrasil DAC, next to the Madrigal PDT3 on a shelf fastened securely to an internal wall.
I bought the Music Hall turntable because I couldn’t get my older Numark PTT-1 DJ table quiet. It tumbled too when I had it on top of my Cerwin-Vega floor standers. Moving the turntable away from the speakers, even a little bit, solved that rumble problem.
Anyway, interested in your suggestions and thoughts on the issue(s) described above. The record is still on the table, I just got discouraged and left it there.
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@jrosemd There is no Beatles album called "Revolution," which is why @vinylandtubes asked the question. Everyone is patiently waiting for @oldrooney to correct himself and say "Revolver" but he seems to think the album is actually called "Revolution." |
@jeffreylee (@jrosemd and @vinylandtubes ) Nope. Totally missed the subtle hint, and I was looking right at the album cover when I responded. My only excuse is that I had a conversation recently with a new acquaintance who had the so-called ‘White’ album, and I asked her if the track with the lyric “Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine, etc. was on it, she didn’t know. I thought the track was a bonus track and not cited on the list of tracks on the album, and stated so to a good friend and musician, who corrected me to say, “I think the track is called ‘Revolution Number Nine.’” I guess the ‘Revolution’ displaced Revolver in my short term memory. All I know is that it is not found on the album titled ‘Revolver.’ Boy, am I embarrassed!🤦🏼♀️ |
@ghdprentice I bought it used, no tool came with mine, and no manual, either. I better get online and see what I can find. The VTA should have been adjusted as part of setup, it’s the first time I’ve had an issue with it. The record really isn’t warped all that much, but just enough to cause an issue. Edit: Found it, printing out now. Says it can be adjusted with an Allen key. @audioguy85 The manual also shows three places on the anti-skate rod to allow for adjustment, I missed that when I was assembling it. Thsnks for the help guys. |
That had to be quite the warp! Hope you returned the record...unacceptable! By the way, the mmf 5.3 has the same anti skate set up as the mmf 7.3, although arm is different. There are still only 3 positions to set your anti skate on the rod attached to back of tonearm. Moving the hanger will do nothing. |
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