Hi all.
I picked up one of these turntables and have not found an offical owner's thread in this forum. This is a great tuntable but not without its problems. I was hoping to open a posting area for user tweaks, technical issues, reviews, etc.
Let me begin with my own issue for anybody to coment on.
Initially I found the sound to be rather dull--I got a digital tracking force gage and set it to the specified 2.2g (with the guestimate provided in the user manual insturctions it came to 1.73 g). This improved the sound tremendously adn gave the top end the sparkle I had expected.
The problem is that after playing it now for 5 min soundiing fantastic it starts to distort terribly and sound terrible. It is not the preamp--I have isolated it to the table itself (and I presume the cartridge). Has anybody else had this problem?
My setup is a belles tube preamp, parasound c1, focal 1027 be speakers, and a sunfire 400x5 power amp in case it would matter to anybody has any ideas.
otherwise--what preamps and setups are you all using this with? any favorite albums? comments on performance?
I hope this thread serves to help other owners and audiophiles considering purchasing this table.
I picked up one of these turntables and have not found an offical owner's thread in this forum. This is a great tuntable but not without its problems. I was hoping to open a posting area for user tweaks, technical issues, reviews, etc.
Let me begin with my own issue for anybody to coment on.
Initially I found the sound to be rather dull--I got a digital tracking force gage and set it to the specified 2.2g (with the guestimate provided in the user manual insturctions it came to 1.73 g). This improved the sound tremendously adn gave the top end the sparkle I had expected.
The problem is that after playing it now for 5 min soundiing fantastic it starts to distort terribly and sound terrible. It is not the preamp--I have isolated it to the table itself (and I presume the cartridge). Has anybody else had this problem?
My setup is a belles tube preamp, parasound c1, focal 1027 be speakers, and a sunfire 400x5 power amp in case it would matter to anybody has any ideas.
otherwise--what preamps and setups are you all using this with? any favorite albums? comments on performance?
I hope this thread serves to help other owners and audiophiles considering purchasing this table.