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Ed Selley said:
That's got the same problem my IsoTek Corvus has; wall wart PSUs tend to block sockets on the opposite bank- the perils of three pin plugs.
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Yeah that's a pig alright. I only have 1 wall wart now since I picked up the couple of linear supplies so thankfully I can afford to sacrifice 2 sockets for the last remaining wall wart for the raspberry pi!
 
duke86fan said:
tbh if i dont go with panamax in the future when i have more money i would go with ifi because i trust their brand.... they made the dac im planning on getting next (though my hifishop can hopefully have me test a hipdac compared to a dragonfly), and the otg cable they have is great
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Weirdly, I will probably never buy another iFi because of my iPhono2 broke after a year and had issues even after a warranty repair.
 
kvetcha said:
Weirdly, I will probably never buy another iFi because of my iPhono2 broke after a year and had issues even after a warranty repair.
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I liked the iPhono2, but once those rash of issues started popping up I moved along. It wasn't broken when I sold it, it was working fine, but I didn't really want to take a chance. Full disclosure to the buyer, btw.
 
Hum update:

Carpenters have a saying, "Measure twice, cut once", I'm going to revise that a bit for audio gear, "Read twice, apply once". Not being overly familiar with the Jolida brand or a tube stage I didn't want to assume too much. Again, at my regular listening level everything's been dead quiet, so I was ready to leave it at that.............until @Joe Mac showed up with his fancy grounding kit ;)

Anyway, I have a tendency of combing over gear manuals when things act up. I look at the troubleshooting tips just in case I'm missing something stupid. When looking at the manual for the Jolida I came across the following as it pertains to the RCA outputs.......

"Low out: 200 Millivolt output for use with preamplifier separates."

When setting up the dip switches, which were a little new to me, but was able to get a better understanding working with @HiFi Guy, the last thing I questioned was which outputs to use. I'm using a standard high output cartridge, so high outputs it is.

After reading the above I was like, "wait, can it be something that simple?", sure enough. Dead quiet at max volume :)

So my fellow audio heads, never assume, even when you've had some experience with gear, read twice, apply once ;)

Now I can sleep without thinking about the HUM, lol
 
AnthonyI said:
Hum update:

Carpenters have a saying, "Measure twice, cut once", I'm going to revise that a bit for audio gear, "Read twice, apply once". Not being overly familiar with the Jolida brand or a tube stage I didn't want to assume too much. Again, at my regular listening level everything's been dead quiet, so I was ready to leave it at that.............until @Joe Mac showed up with his fancy grounding kit ;)

Anyway, I have a tendency of combing over gear manuals when things act up. I look at the troubleshooting tips just in case I'm missing something stupid. When looking at the manual for the Jolida I came across the following as it pertains to the RCA outputs.......

"Low out: 200 Millivolt output for use with preamplifier separates."

When setting up the dip switches, which were a little new to me, but was able to get a better understanding working with @HiFi Guy, the last thing I questioned was which outputs to use. I'm using a standard high output cartridge, so high outputs it is.

After reading the above I was like, "wait, can it be something that simple?", sure enough. Dead quiet at max volume :)

So my fellow audio heads, never assume, even when you've had some experience with gear, read twice, apply once ;)

Now I can sleep without thinking about the HUM, lol
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Always read the manual first.

I want to tattoo that on my dads head btw 😂
 
AnthonyI said:
Hum update:

Carpenters have a saying, "Measure twice, cut once", I'm going to revise that a bit for audio gear, "Read twice, apply once". Not being overly familiar with the Jolida brand or a tube stage I didn't want to assume too much. Again, at my regular listening level everything's been dead quiet, so I was ready to leave it at that.............until @Joe Mac showed up with his fancy grounding kit ;)

Anyway, I have a tendency of combing over gear manuals when things act up. I look at the troubleshooting tips just in case I'm missing something stupid. When looking at the manual for the Jolida I came across the following as it pertains to the RCA outputs.......

"Low out: 200 Millivolt output for use with preamplifier separates."

When setting up the dip switches, which were a little new to me, but was able to get a better understanding working with @HiFi Guy, the last thing I questioned was which outputs to use. I'm using a standard high output cartridge, so high outputs it is.

After reading the above I was like, "wait, can it be something that simple?", sure enough. Dead quiet at max volume :)

So my fellow audio heads, never assume, even when you've had some experience with gear, read twice, apply once ;)

Now I can sleep without thinking about the HUM, lol
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It's all about the HUM! 😜
 
AnthonyI said:
I liked the iPhono2, but once those rash of issues started popping up I moved along. It wasn't broken when I sold it, it was working fine, but I didn't really want to take a chance. Full disclosure to the buyer, btw.
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Melt Face Molly Drop said:
iPhono2: Unreliable and Ugly. Nexxxxt.
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Gotta say, it was a really great sounding stage when it was working.
 
HayesWeighsIn said:
Well, semi-embarrassing revelation here recently:

I found myself unusually sensitive to a lot of sibilance and general top end distortion, and I’m thinking what the heck, maybe my cart isn’t properly aligned, I just put a new stylus on a couple months ago. Nope, it’s bang on with the Geodisc. I’m tracing my signal flow, tried swapping preamps, amidst it all, I suddenly realize there’s an impedance switch on the Schiit Magni headphone amp I have in my system, that’s been on high this entire time. Welp, flip it to low and sure enough, literally everything about the soundstage has improved, and still have plenty of gain on tap even for 250 ohm headphones.

Big improvement across the board, so I pulled out one of my toughest sibilant trackers - Chris Bellman’s recut of Tom Petty’s Echo. I’m generally a fan of Bellman’s aggressive mastering, but on this one he really played with fire on the vocal! Haha. Sure enough aside from a handful of S’s that seemingly can’t be saved no matter what, it’s a joy to listen to.

And in the midst of it all, rediscovered my MoFi StudioPhono pre which is just great - I’d had it in a closet as it was set up on another system at a time when I was bouncing between two apartments.

I guess this is my typically long-winded way of saying, it’s never a bad idea to make sure there isn’t anything you can do with the gear you already have before thinking an upgrade will be the fix!
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AnthonyI said:
Hum update:

Carpenters have a saying, "Measure twice, cut once", I'm going to revise that a bit for audio gear, "Read twice, apply once". Not being overly familiar with the Jolida brand or a tube stage I didn't want to assume too much. Again, at my regular listening level everything's been dead quiet, so I was ready to leave it at that.............until @Joe Mac showed up with his fancy grounding kit ;)

Anyway, I have a tendency of combing over gear manuals when things act up. I look at the troubleshooting tips just in case I'm missing something stupid. When looking at the manual for the Jolida I came across the following as it pertains to the RCA outputs.......

"Low out: 200 Millivolt output for use with preamplifier separates."

When setting up the dip switches, which were a little new to me, but was able to get a better understanding working with @HiFi Guy, the last thing I questioned was which outputs to use. I'm using a standard high output cartridge, so high outputs it is.

After reading the above I was like, "wait, can it be something that simple?", sure enough. Dead quiet at max volume :)

So my fellow audio heads, never assume, even when you've had some experience with gear, read twice, apply once ;)

Now I can sleep without thinking about the HUM, lol
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Good advice, well said. Thank you for sharing, guys!
 
Joe Mac said:
So what you have bought is a full preamp with a phono stage rather than just a phono stage. So it does actually control gain. What I would do in that situation is put the speakers up to full gain and control the volume from the preamp.
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Got this in today, it works just like you said, thanks for the help! Still really unsure if I like it more with or without this bellari piece in, sounds maybe a little more harsh.... instruction book said something about how it has a HEADPHONE amp built in, maybe if it’s getting its amp signal from this piece and this amp signal is designed for headphones it wouldn’t translate that great with speakers. It’s a learning process I suppose
 
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