03-24-2017, 10:30 AM
Figured I'd ask the question here.
Just this past weekend my turntable started acting up. Everything seems fine when a record starts, but then suddenly I seem to be getting what I can best describe as feedback, or a low droning constant hum of bass? Never had the problem before, not sure whats causing it. I tried another album thinking it might be the issue itself, but after about another 30 seconds into a song, it happened again.
I looked a bit online and one article said it can actually be feedback from vibration of a subwoofer. That doesn't seem to be it though as the subwoofer is quite a distance away and I have not moved it or anything.
One other issue I seemed to have recently is speed variation. Its almost like the rpm is varying on my turntable, the song slowly speeds up, slowly speeds down, almost like you;d expect from a warped album. My wife thinks I am crazy and doesn't hear it, but it is 100% definitely there.
Its not like I have a super high end turntable, its an semi-average pioneer PL-990, but seemed to work fine up until now. Anyone else have similar issues?
Who knows, maybe its time to just scrap this turntable and get another one. This turntable is less than a year old though, so a little perturbed if that's the case.
Just this past weekend my turntable started acting up. Everything seems fine when a record starts, but then suddenly I seem to be getting what I can best describe as feedback, or a low droning constant hum of bass? Never had the problem before, not sure whats causing it. I tried another album thinking it might be the issue itself, but after about another 30 seconds into a song, it happened again.
I looked a bit online and one article said it can actually be feedback from vibration of a subwoofer. That doesn't seem to be it though as the subwoofer is quite a distance away and I have not moved it or anything.
One other issue I seemed to have recently is speed variation. Its almost like the rpm is varying on my turntable, the song slowly speeds up, slowly speeds down, almost like you;d expect from a warped album. My wife thinks I am crazy and doesn't hear it, but it is 100% definitely there.
Its not like I have a super high end turntable, its an semi-average pioneer PL-990, but seemed to work fine up until now. Anyone else have similar issues?
Who knows, maybe its time to just scrap this turntable and get another one. This turntable is less than a year old though, so a little perturbed if that's the case.