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Turntable needle / cartridge / styli problem.. help!?

January 25th, 2010 by admin

Recently I moved my decks into another room, set them up, only to discover one headshell/cart was all distorted, bass was messed up and so were the highs.

Anyway.. after a little inspection I thought it’s either the headshell or cart right? Since when I use the good headshell on the same deck it plays fine.

So I bought a brand new headshell.. and a brand new Shure M44-7 (which I’m using).. just set them up, and it’s still happening!!

I can’t understand how it’s happening at all.

TT A – Play with the good headshell/cart = GOOD.
TT A – Play with the brand new headshell/cart = DISTORTED.

WTF??!?!?!?!?

Please help because I’m going crazy.

I’ve had the decks about a month in total, Technics 1210’s. Shure M44-7’s as carts/styli.

Sounds like a proplem I was having. You Said you started having this problem after moving your decks. This happen to me, I moved my decks and never checked whether they were level and for some reason it was distorted and then the needles started skiping to the end of the record. If I was you check to see if your tables are level. Sounds corney but fixed my problem. Also, having speakers behind your decks can mess up the sound quality.

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3 Responses to “Turntable needle / cartridge / styli problem.. help!?”

  1. #1
    Lee
    January 26th, 2010 2:43 am

    Believe it or not, just because you installed a new one, doesn’t mean it can’t be defective……..I would return it, and exchange it for another one.
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  2. #2
    Joe U
    January 26th, 2010 3:22 am

    The headshell/cart assembly may indeed be defective. It’s more likely that it is mis-wired. Before you return your new headshell, make sure that you don’t have ‘hot’ and ground reversed and/or that the channels are not out of phase.
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  3. #3
    DJSiddhartha
    January 26th, 2010 4:08 am

    Sounds like a proplem I was having. You Said you started having this problem after moving your decks. This happen to me, I moved my decks and never checked whether they were level and for some reason it was distorted and then the needles started skiping to the end of the record. If I was you check to see if your tables are level. Sounds corney but fixed my problem. Also, having speakers behind your decks can mess up the sound quality.
    References :

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