Hiss on Phono

[Axel]

Im using a Benz Ebony L into the Devialet 200 phono and the it's too noisy at -15db, at 0db if I close my eyes I can imagine i'm in a rainforest during heavy rainfall.

Using a PS Audio nu wave phono into line 1 it's only marginally better. Every amplifier I've ever owned is quiter, the specs lie. There must be an answer to the issue of excess noise, maybe it's earthing. If it's firmware then I personally have no knowledge.

Most are content to accept some noise at acceptable listening levels but this shouldn't have to be. Why should you have to buy an SUT to achieve silence? Devialet is state of the art so should provide a state of the art noise floor.

I borrowed a DPremier two years ago, in the same system i have now it was earily silent, no power conditioning required. Why is the D200 a retrograde step from the DPremier as far as noise floor goes and why are owners settling for it by listening at low volumes or using SUT's? The level of noise i'm experiencing i'd be as well buying a budget tt set-up because so much low level info that my expensive tt set up is providing is being drowned in white noise.

I adore the general sound (to my ears the D200 phono is also far superior to the DPrem phono) Now I have the cartridge tuned into the confusing advanced configurator settings (what happened to simple gain and loading or perhaps internal impedence) Sadly however unless I can lower the noise floor i'll return the unit for something else.

You're probably way ahead of me here, but are you aware that you can change gain and loading on the fly with the remote control?