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Mains hum pickup on a Pink Triangle deck



 
 
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Old February 12th 04, 04:29 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Keith G
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Default Mains hum pickup on a Pink Triangle deck


"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
...
Laurence Payne wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:05:10 +0000, Richard Markham
wrote:


As it happens I have been using the Goat's dung/ rancid butter

concoction for
years but have recently discovered that if you wrap those little glass

bottles
in your amp' with cooking foil the effect is truly outstanding. Keep on

taking
the tablets.


That's very useful. Thank you so much for taking the time to post that.



It is, actually. As a warning to anyone tempted to swallow less
obvious audiophile snake-oil :-) There's a lot out there.


Why, I have the input valves in my phono stage in shielding cans, whats
wrong with reducing RF pickup ?




Nothing at all.

What many people need to realise is that One Man's Tweak is/can be Another
Man's Poison, but if real benefits are actually 'perceived' then where's the
problem? I think that most 'Snake Oil Squealers' simply can't afford the
upgrade or 'tweak' in question so shoot them down (rather noisily) without
the benefit of personal experience......





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Old February 16th 04, 11:15 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
chris
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Default Mains hum pickup on a Pink Triangle deck


"Richard Markham" wrote in message
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I have a Pink Triangle record deck with a Rega RB300 arm and Rega
cartridge.

I noticed in the past that there was mains pickup when the arm gets

too
near the motor - i.e. nearer to the centre of the record.

Now I have mounted the deck above my CD player, it's picking up hum

from
there also.

Can I fix this with some earthing arrangement, or does the deck just
have to be away from any other mains device?

The Amp has an earth stud, but the deck doesn't have one. The deck

uses
an outboard PSU for the motor drive.


--
Richard Markham


Richard
Im no expert on this, but I do remember someone else saying the same
thing about a P2 TT.
turns out when he swapped the Raga cartridge for a Grado -problem
gone.

Chris.


 




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