Phono Preamp

I'm on the ground floor and have a radio station a block away. I had to move my phono preamp and TT to the floor to get rid of my problem.

Are you sure it is the EAR 834 that is picking up the station? Before moving it I would go to your local dealer and see if he will let you demo a couple of different ICs for your tonearm. I had that problem with a set of Kimber cables from my tonearm. Switched to a better shielded cable and that was the end of the radio station.

I agree with Agaffer here. I was using Synergistic Alpha One on my MMF7 and it was picking up a station loudly. When I went back to the stock cable, it not only sounded much better but all the radio was gone. Sometimes "less" is truly "more."

From what I have read you may have 3 12Ax7 in your pre. I have heard that tubes can be a real problem when it comes to being great pick ups for RFI. If you can audition a pure solid state phono pre that would make you happy that might be the trick.

I had the same problem and tried numerous solutions. You could try different interconnects, did'nt work for me. Someone else suggested aluminium foil+ ferrite beads, wrapped around the phono cable, that did'nt work either. Grounding is an obvious one, but I assume you checked that. My solution was a new phonostage, the unit from K&k audio. Not a blip of pickup since I bought it and that uses tubes. Just shows, there is no substitute for careful design to exclude RFI