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Old 8th February 2010   #8
OMNIFEX
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Originally Posted by odub View Post
This was one early suspicion but a Rane 56 would have been designed for fairly loud output from both record and cartridge. And the 56 has a trim knob and that has no effect on the distortion. I need to do more trial-and-erroring but I seem to be able to duplicate the same issues in two different pre-amps.

You will need to find out if your Rane mixer's trim knob is between the RCA connection and the preamplifier's input. If it is after the pre-amplifiers output, it
will not be helpful under the given conditions.

Why not just try another cartridge if it is indeed the record? It would answer your question within 30 seconds.

Cheers!
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