Is anyone else’s PMG Signature transport making drive noises just loud enough to hear while a disk is spinning? I’ve noticed it on mine. It’s not loud by any means, but it’s not dead quiet. My old PST (same drive) was dead quiet. I’m noticing the difference. Oddly it seems to vary with disk type. For some reason XRCDs are louder than regular CDs
Alignment?
Are XRCDs dimensionally different?
Must be the weight of the extra bits.
The weight difference is supposed to be just a little bit.
good one! Very punny!
I know Paul said that they only had a certain amount of drives for the PMG I believe he said PS has cache of extra supplies for replacements.
I just tried a CD, a SACD, a XRCD, a K2HD, and a DVD-R on PMG SACD and I did not hear any spinning noise. I was about one foot away from it, and way out of my preferred listening position.
Hmm. A call to Delia may be in order.
Delia is the BEST!
My PMG SACD had a faulty drive from right out of the box. Opening/closing it made loud gears grinding noises. It was unacceptable. Contacted the mothership , they fixed the problem. Over a year and it works flawlessly. Time for you to call Delia.
I’m going to attribute this to a) me not fully testing this, b) jumping to conclusions, and c) having some weird XRCDs. I should have said in my original post “one XRCD”. I went back into the sound room, had everything of a noise making variety turned off, and tried multiple disks of different types. With all but two XRCDs (of the number of varied disk types that I tried, including other XRCDs), with my ear 6" away from the front face of the drawer all I could hear was the spinning of the spindle motor, in all a very slight “hmmmmm”. I guess the spinning motor has to make some noise! From a foot or more away I could hear nothing. But when those couple of XRCDs are played, the sled indexing and movement can be heard, although even that is not scary sounding. I wonder what the deal is with those disks?
In my PST a few discs make noise as they are played–I honestly think they may be a bit unbalanced or off center or some sort of pressing default or warpage.