[shep]

Hmmm. There should be slight hiss with the vol. full open, nothing more. Where is it plugged into your amp?

[woodlandjustin]

Hmmm. There should be slight hiss with the vol. full open, nothing more. Where is it plugged into your amp?

To the aux input

[shep]

Try another one, you never know...

[lcrim]

justin:

I saw your reply when I was about to post this.  Do you have a ground wire connected between the TT and the phono stage?  If not there should be a post on both to accomplish this.  It can explain the noise.

[woodlandjustin]

justin:

I saw your reply when I was about to post this.  Do you have a ground wire connected between the TT and the phono stage?  If not there should be a post on both to accomplish this.  It can explain the noise.

Well, like I said this noise is there even with no turntabel connected to the phono stage at all! So I don't think that could be it.
Justin

[lcrim]

Justin, the Luxman must have a few miles on it because I don't think its made anymore.  Is it a tubed unit?  It may be behaving perfectly normally.  Try the loading (3 ohms, 40, 100) @ 3 and it should be fairly quiet at anything like a normal volume level.  You may simply be hearing the noise floor of the unit when you crank the volume.  Do try grounding everything properly as any phono stage because of all the gain has a certain amount of noise and will amplify any crap it picks up.  I don't know much about Japanese electrical wiring but I think they are 60 cycles/ 105 volts so that shouldn't be the issue.