When I turn my system up fairly high, I can make out a faint "pre-sound" of what is about to play, with the beginning of the songs starting very, very quietly about 3/10 of a second before it actually starts.
At I thought it could be my stabilizer brush fibers accidentally acting as little styli ahead of the needle, but it does this even with the brush locked up.
Equipment: Linn Basik TT Linn Basik Plus tonearm Shure M97xE cart Pro-Ject Phonobox preamp Harmon Kardon AV240 receiver NHT 2.5 speakers Cheap interconnects
And of course that distortion is inaudible, contrary to the far lower distortion introduced by, say, a digital facsimile of the same recording, which everybody can hear!
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