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Gazjam
16-05-2015, 13:55
Spent a big chunk of today listening to vinyl and thought I could hear some slight wavering in pitch on piano music.
Hmnn..maybe the belt is needing a clean. Did that...nope.
Bearing oil? Fine.
Motor unit? Bought brand new so not that.

My deck is powered by a seperate Michell HR Power supply,which is powered from an IEC feed.

When I set up my balanced mains unit, everything was powered directly from it. As my system has had some different kit come and go since then I physically dont have enough hardwired feeds from the BMU to power everything, so some of the kit is fed from the Belkin PF30 unit.

Turns out the turntable PSU was being powered by the Belkin and was the cause of the speed fluctuations to the turntable motor unit. :rolleyes:
My theory is that the Belkin does it power regulation "on the fly" and maybe fluctuates as a function of input voltage from the mains?
Maybe was affecting the voltage output of the TT psu plugged into it?

Took the hardwired feed from my Transporter into the turntable psu and BOOM...perfect speed now rock solid.
Interestingly the soundstage is noticably bigger and more solid now too.

Need to get back to everything hardwired direct from the BMU for best sound quality.
Be good to get the most I can out of the kit.

struth
16-05-2015, 14:02
I got a similar improvement when i powered my belkin from the regenerator..now supplied with 230v 50hz constant...makes a big difference and as a result i saved on replacing the tt psu with something better which was my next move. even Marco noticed the speed was spot o! all the time.
didnt realise your tt was not on your bmu

Ali Tait
16-05-2015, 14:04
It doesn't do any regulation AFAIK, just filtering, so if the mains was fluctuating, so would the PF30's output.

Gazjam
16-05-2015, 14:29
I got a similar improvement when i powered my belkin from the regenerator..now supplied with 230v 50hz constant...makes a big difference and as a result i saved on replacing the tt psu with something better which was my next move. even Marco noticed the speed was spot o! all the time.
didnt realise your tt was not on your bmu

Me neither!

Gazjam
16-05-2015, 14:29
It doesn't do any regulation AFAIK, just filtering, so if the mains was fluctuating, so would the PF30's output.

Ah.
Good the BMU feed is rock solid, would you expect it to be?

Ali Tait
16-05-2015, 14:51
That would be the same, the output would vary as the mains input does.

Ali Tait
16-05-2015, 14:54
If you start noticing this regularly, might be worth having a regulated supply to the motor power supply?

struth
16-05-2015, 15:34
could you not regenerate the mains after the bmu?

Gazjam
16-05-2015, 15:35
Yup, ill be keeping an ear on it, cheers Ali.