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RE: Samuels Nighthawk

Posted by PAR on February 14, 2017 at 15:05:04

In Reply to: Samuels Nighthawk posted by welly on February 14, 2017 at 13:53:58:

" but occasionally, there is a louder irregular noise like a motor boat noise"

The only time that I have experienced this type of fault was caused by the cantilever being able to move minutely forward and back rather than remaining fixed in relation to the magnets ( or, in this case, coils).

I am not saying that this is your problem but it does sound like a cartridge fault and not a phono pre-amp one especially as the problem did not exist with the Denon cart.

Ray Samuels advises the the Nighthawk offers " 40db-75db in six increments". I do not believe that knowing the precise incremental values will help you at all as they will be marginal e.g. probably around 4dB per increment particularly as the fault is still apparently audible at the lowest set sensitivity .

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