As mentioned in my intro, I have dabbled with TWO of the vintage and exceptional Technics linear tracking turntables--
SL7 with a Ortofon cart and the coveted
SL10 with the original 310MC cart--complete with a
Hagerman Flugelhorn phono amp. Those combos should sound great but unfortunately with vinyl I have had some nearly "throw in the towel" frustrations...I have an unbearable level of hum and noise with either i just can't get rid of.
The main one I'm trying to use is the SL10 and I do not have the original grounding/RCA adapter and Technics in all their wisdom, placed the grounding hole too close to the audio outs. I picked up one of those ebay "replacements" and think it's grounded well enough...but i have tons of noise through my Flugelhorn. I know the table itself introduces some of that and I've tried different outlets and power configurations but nothing seems to fix. Of course the .2mv MC cart probably doesn't help...and the built-in preamp is not clean enough...so i picked up a custom Beyer SUT. That improves things somewhat with it's added gain but I can tell through the noise that it still sounds best directly through the Hagerman and highest gain--but that hum is a killer. I've tried several preamps and all give the hum to some degree---about to try one last time with a fully-returnable Pro-ject Phono Box DS+, before i call it quits--or try that "leviating" or "love turntable" high-tech options. Anyone have any ideas of what i could try to fix this?
Could this really be considered a "turntable" in the truest sense of the word since it's effectively digital?
http://www.loveturntable.com/