heavypettying
Standard Member
Hi all,
I was hoping for some advice on the following issue please!
My system is: Linn Axis turntable with Audio Technica VT520EB, Rega Brio-R, Dali Menuets.
I am experiencing sibillance, vocal distortion and excessive brightness from the turntable. I have tested it with older pressings, and brand new records and the problem persists. I should also say there is no sibillance when I'm streaming music, so I can be fairly confident it's not the speakers. I have taken the turntable to a Linn specialist, who fitted the new cartridge and setup the turntable properly. It was play tested through one of their systems and sounded fine.
So my question is, where do I go from here? I'm quite confused, here are some of the things I am thinking about.
Could the AT cartridge be over bright? Would it be worth replacing the cartidge with something warmer or darker sounding? Would it make much difference?
Is it possible that the cartridge is too powerful and overloading the phono stage in the Brio?
Would it be worth considering a separate tube preamp to try to warm things up a bit?
Could it simple be that my turntable is a bad match for the amp / speaker combo?
Rather than mess around with all the above, would it be better to replace the Linn with a Rega turntable which presumable would be well matched to the Rega amp?
Sorry about all the qustions, I'm tearing my hair out here!
Thanks
Paul
I was hoping for some advice on the following issue please!
My system is: Linn Axis turntable with Audio Technica VT520EB, Rega Brio-R, Dali Menuets.
I am experiencing sibillance, vocal distortion and excessive brightness from the turntable. I have tested it with older pressings, and brand new records and the problem persists. I should also say there is no sibillance when I'm streaming music, so I can be fairly confident it's not the speakers. I have taken the turntable to a Linn specialist, who fitted the new cartridge and setup the turntable properly. It was play tested through one of their systems and sounded fine.
So my question is, where do I go from here? I'm quite confused, here are some of the things I am thinking about.
Could the AT cartridge be over bright? Would it be worth replacing the cartidge with something warmer or darker sounding? Would it make much difference?
Is it possible that the cartridge is too powerful and overloading the phono stage in the Brio?
Would it be worth considering a separate tube preamp to try to warm things up a bit?
Could it simple be that my turntable is a bad match for the amp / speaker combo?
Rather than mess around with all the above, would it be better to replace the Linn with a Rega turntable which presumable would be well matched to the Rega amp?
Sorry about all the qustions, I'm tearing my hair out here!
Thanks
Paul