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EAR834p clone hum (help needed)
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ahlbergmagnus
Apr 08, 2023
Finally after a lot of testing I am getting some result with my hum. I have an input switch for MM and MC. I have hum even if nothing in connected to an input so I know the hum is from the 834. If I switch to MM, and then ground the switch with a wire, hum is pretty much gone. It disappears completely if I put my hand over the MM inputs, I do not even need to touch them. Same if I hold a piece of metal in front of them. When I plug in my TT to the MM input, there is a faint hum, and it makes no difference if I ground the switch or not. It's a Rega P6, with no separate ground cable. Ground is in the left channel cable. Don't know if that has anything to do with it. If I switch to MC, which is routed trough a pair of Lundahl LL1931 SUTs, I still have hum even with the switch grounded. A little less than when not grounded, but not much. I only have a MC cartridge, so if I want to listen, hum will be present. I have made it so that the switch also switches ground/-. Bad idea? I have changed all the unshielded input wires on the picture to shielded, no difference. Also there is a problem with hum with the Rega P6. I get loud hum when I touch the tonearm and sometimes it stays after I let go of it, sometimes not. If I move around the input cables from the Rega this hum also can start. When I get this hum, I can cancel it by putting a wire from Right input- to chassis, but if I leave this wire permanently it makes the hum come back and is instead cancelled when I remove the wire. This wire do not help with getting hum when touching tonearm either. All of this is so weird to me. So, what can I do now as the next step? Do I need to ground my inputs in another manner perhaps?
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EAR834p clone hum (help needed)
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