Buzzing Transients

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Is all the music you want to hear available on vinyl? It IS about
the music, isn't it? :-)

Leaving that aside for the moment:
What you describe is either an electrical overload somewhere in the
signal chain or severe mistracking. If the former - sort it out and
no harm is done. If the latter, you're ripping your vinyl to pieces.
Maybe something shifted on the way home from the store. Maybe you
have a faulty cartridge or a damaged cantilever.

Vinyl DOES mistrack a little on loud passages. You can minimise the
effect, but ears used to the cleaner sound of digital may hear it more
than we did when vinyl was all we had. But it sounds as if you're
getting more than marginal mistracking.

Do check the electrical signal path as well though. What amp etc.
are you running in to?





On 7 Jul 2005 10:57:09 -0700, "nakbrooks" <nigel.brooks@stratis.co.uk>
wrote:

>I'm returning to vinyl after a decade with CDs so forgive me if this is
>an obvious problem.
>
>I'm getting distortion which takes the form of a very strong "buzz" on
>transients (a heavy beat buzzes like hell in time to the beat, music
>without major transients plays fine). This is with a brand new
>deck/cartridge and occurs on new/unplayed discs as well as older ones.
>For some reason seems worse with 45s.
>
>Turntable is a Project 2 Xperience with standard arm.
>Cartridge is an Ortofon MC25FL
>
>The cartridge was installed by the Project agent at the dealers (I have
>to assume he knew what he was doing). Tracking Force is set at the
>recommended 2g.
>
>Is there something obvious wrong?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nigel

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On 8 Jul 2005 07:33:07 -0700, "nakbrooks" <nigel.brooks@stratis.co.uk>
wrote:

>I'm using a Trichord Dino/Dino+ phono amp, going through to a Mission
>Cyrus. I'll check the switch settings on the Dino in case it's simply
>that (hope so!).

Does this gear have controls allowing each stage to feed the next an
appropriate level? Proper gain staging is an important element
(possibly the MOST important element) in achieving quality audio
recording or reproduction. I'm constantly amazed at the lack of
facilities to achieve it on audiophile gear :-) A clean signal path
is nice. Optimum gain staging is immeasurably more important.