For tomorrow: Happy Birthday...

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On Sunday 11 December 2011 13:27:19 The Dong wrote:

> Instead of Faraday shielding, might I suggest an axe for multiple other 
> reasons also? ;)

You don't know how often I dream of doing that ;)


> Is your preamp specifically for MC and not MM?

There's a shitty jumper setting for that under the thing.

> The MC preamps are designed for higher amplification as well as having 
> different load/capacitance on the input. I'm daft to presume you don't 
> know this, after all, you've bought the gear :)

You can also tweak the capacitance by plugging in different resistors in the box. I followed the manufactors recommendation but they may have misled me. Well, anyway it seems to be a problem with the  preamp as I plugged in a different model/brand the shop lent me for comparison, and everything is suddenly a-ok. 
I'll try changing the capacitance settings in the first one, but maybe it simply is faulty.

I had a look in the first preamp "user manual". There's a warning in red : "If you use a mobile phone, the music reproduction can be influenced!". Understatement of the year.
 
> Mobile phones are shat for this. With a lot of audio gear, you can tell 
> when one is going to ring seconds before it does and no minor tweaking 
> will completely remove this "precognitive superpower".
> 
> Oh, and HBD :)


Thank you, and thanks for the help.