Help with uninspiring sound with my turntable.

Thanks again for all the ideas - I am now able to enjoy listening to my vinyl. The issues were Tracking force, alignment, leveling surface that the TT was sitting on and stylus cleaning.

I am very grateful for Audiogon and its members - It has played such an important role in building my 2 channel system which I get so much enjoyment from.

Best regards,

Greg Roberts.

Good news! Glad it's sounding good now.

I can relate. I just worked through an issue with my turntable that some others have experienced similarly that could be a common thing worth mentioning in case it applies for you.

I was picking up a low level buzz/hum on my phono despite the fact that everything appeared grounded properly. I only noticed it recently after moving a larger pair of full range speakers into a relatively small listening room.

The problem was the pre-amp was sitting directly on top of a new amp that I had put in the system a few months back and the proximity of the amp was producing some sort of inductance issue with the phono section in the preamp.

I only noticed the problem when music was not playing and the volume was up, but I suspect it negatively impacted the sound quality when playing as well when occurring even though it was not directly audible.

The solution was to separate the amp from pre-amp by 15" or so.

Just something to keep in mind perhaps should a similar problem ever arise.

That is a very common problem...and one should always remember to keep the amp and preamp far from each other.