Henry,
Very sorry to hear about your preamp. This is further to my
email to you.
IMO - All turntables are a system that needs to work in
unison Bearing, motor, platter, spindle,
tonearm/cartridge. How all these parts are joined together
differs greatly. They all however at some point need to come
to a common ground/platform/plinth. Your white shelf right
now represents this common ground, and you have indicated
that it is sub-par already. The Raven already has this
common ground its own plinth.
Again IMO - if you want to keep that white shelf, the
Victor/armpods in that TT location you need to add a level
on top of that shelf that the Victor and armpods all join to
for isolation. This will then become the common platform aka
plinth for that whole turntable system.
The 420str is a beacon for all good and bad and a great test
of a system I found for wires/grounding, motors. If you put
it on a pole in your backyard it will bring in HD channels
for you.
Keep phono runs as short as possible. As I suggested earlier
place your preamp next to the victor and try it that way
when you are up and running.
Good luck.
Very sorry to hear about your preamp. This is further to my
email to you.
IMO - All turntables are a system that needs to work in
unison Bearing, motor, platter, spindle,
tonearm/cartridge. How all these parts are joined together
differs greatly. They all however at some point need to come
to a common ground/platform/plinth. Your white shelf right
now represents this common ground, and you have indicated
that it is sub-par already. The Raven already has this
common ground its own plinth.
Again IMO - if you want to keep that white shelf, the
Victor/armpods in that TT location you need to add a level
on top of that shelf that the Victor and armpods all join to
for isolation. This will then become the common platform aka
plinth for that whole turntable system.
The 420str is a beacon for all good and bad and a great test
of a system I found for wires/grounding, motors. If you put
it on a pole in your backyard it will bring in HD channels
for you.
Keep phono runs as short as possible. As I suggested earlier
place your preamp next to the victor and try it that way
when you are up and running.
Good luck.