Hi all,
I assembled my reduction and making a very long story short it didn't work so after troubleshooting myself I sent it back to get repaired. One of the problems I was having was very noticeable popping from only the right channel. This was independent from the tubes as I tried switching them and it stayed in the right channel.
Got it back last night and it was supposed to be in full working order. All of the problems I was having were fixed including the popping in the right channel, or so I thought. But then after having the Reduction on for 10-20 minutes I went to put on a new record and after I took off the needle there was the popping in the right channel again! But this time it was much less prominent than it was before. Nonetheless, still popping at a low volume and even though it's not noticeable while music is coming through the speakers, it's audible when no record is playing and thus annoying. Complete and perfect silence from the left channel.
Now here's where it gets a little weird. After setting aside my frustration with the audible popping while no music was on by (no duh) listening to more music for an hour or so. I noticed that the popping had pretty much gone away.
Does anyone know what the heck could be going on? Is this part of a break-in period. I vaguely remember reading a forum post that said this could be caused by oil from human hands burning off. I would just love to know if this is something that's normal or if it's something that still needs repair work.
Regards from SF,
Andrew
