thanks for that link very much dude , that's very helpful, now i know what i should be looking after. cheers

Quote: Originally Posted by dvw look under a microscope and see there is any wear. the wear looks like polished surface microscope? i don't have a microscope, and even if i did, i don't know how i'd look at the stylus through it... and when you say "polished surface"...i'm...

I have a rega elys cartridge on a rega p3-24 TT. the thing is - how do i know when i need to replace the cartridge if everything is sounding fine? i've read that chipped and/or worn styluses can damage your vinyls, so that freaked me out a bit. i have also recently done quite a few not so...

well dude, i'm by no means an expert, just recently got into vinyl myself and am enjoying my first deck/cart, but from the pic, it looks perfectly fine to me. i have a rega p3-24 with rega elys cartridge and the position of my stylus is very similar. not that this means anything, as we have...

thanks memepool on a great post. can you just tell what "skating" really is and how do i recognize it? i've also noticed that on most of my lps the tonearm goes horizontally forward-bacward on the record in slight movements. it doesn't produce any aural glitches, it plays normal but it makes...

wow, i had no idea i could just lift the lid and those plastic hinges wouldn't break. i was positive they would. @ nikongod - thanks for the great post, but how do you mean 1/4 inch around record's perimeter? 1/4 inch is very short distance and i'd consider that a definite bump, but i'm sure...

thanks for the replies so far guys! @ proglife: i must be an idiot...i mean, there are hinges, yes, but on the lid there's only plastic that goes into the spaces on the TT itself...and if i lifted the lid like on the picture you posted, i think that those pieces of plastic on the lid that...

1) Ok, the first question is about the plastic cover thing you put on the TT that protects it: is there a way to actually MOUNT the thing on the TT, or do you just completely take it off when you listen and put it on when you don't listen? 2) in the manual it says that during a record...

hm, it seems that everyone on this topic is talking about the old rega p3. i have just recently bought the new p3-24 and the extarnal psu. i haven't listened to it yet with its stock power supply, so i can not comment on the difference. it has rega elys cartridge on it. i'm very very pleased...

excuse me for ignorance once again, but what is a "gradual slope", as opposed to "up and down drop"? thanks

ok, one more thing: recently i have bought quite a few NEW vinyls (really high quality releases), but they're warped even new. and i don't mean "warped as in not stone flat", i mean very visibly warped when you give it a spin. so, basically, one has to play warped records. i know it's...

a beautiful post! thank you for your effort, much obliged

you're very helpful, people. very informative discussion. i've also found that it's extremely difficult to find an LP that is stone flat, like steve has said. all of them have some little kind of unevenness. i suppose that's fine and can't damage anything. regarding cleaning of records, i've...

yes, well the channel swap with cables definitely ruled out the preamp as being source of the fault. however, upon further inspection, i've noticed that the glass plate onto which records are placed is not 100% horizontally leveled all the time when it's spinning. it actually goes up and down...

yes, if i swap the cables to the preamp for right and left channels, it moves to the other channel. however, if it was a problem with the pre-amp or cables themselves, then the whole things wouldn't work at all, am i right? but it does work alright on the inner half of LPs. one other...