Arny Krueger
August 30th 03, 12:00 PM
"Lisa" > wrote in message
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> Hello there
>
> I have just boight a secondhand turntable. Its a Rotel RP830 with a
> nagaoka MP11 cartridge and new stylus. Records sound great on it, a
> real improvement on my old TT, but whenever it gets withing the last
> 5cm of the record (usually the last or second to last song), it starts
> to disctort and then skips. This happens whether the record is an old
> boot sale records or brand new unplayed. I have adjusted the
> alighnment of the cartridge and it seems better, but is still doing
> it. Any ideas?
Sounds like excess friction or other excess side force as the tone arm moves
towards the center of the record.
It could be a problem with the tone-arm's bearings, the arm dragging on the
tone-arm lift, badly-adjusted anti-skating or due to the positioning and
curving of the tonearm's wiring.
m
> Hello there
>
> I have just boight a secondhand turntable. Its a Rotel RP830 with a
> nagaoka MP11 cartridge and new stylus. Records sound great on it, a
> real improvement on my old TT, but whenever it gets withing the last
> 5cm of the record (usually the last or second to last song), it starts
> to disctort and then skips. This happens whether the record is an old
> boot sale records or brand new unplayed. I have adjusted the
> alighnment of the cartridge and it seems better, but is still doing
> it. Any ideas?
Sounds like excess friction or other excess side force as the tone arm moves
towards the center of the record.
It could be a problem with the tone-arm's bearings, the arm dragging on the
tone-arm lift, badly-adjusted anti-skating or due to the positioning and
curving of the tonearm's wiring.