[SweetAdeline]

Hi there. I hope this is in the right place. If not, feel free to move it.

I'm a vinyl noob so this may be elementary. I have a Technics 1200, and so far, I've really been enjoying my humble setup. I played a few records last night, with no issues. Then tonight, I went to play a few more, and set the needle down, and it didn't move. I don't know what changed, it appears to be making contact with the record, but it won't move off the place I set it on. I have a Shure M97xe if that helps at all. Edit: Perhaps noteworthy, I've been messing around with the height and it doesn't make a difference.

 

[Todd]

A couple of things to check - make sure the armlift is going down and releasing the arm onto the album. Make sure you still have a stylus! Make sure your anti skate is not set too high (although I doubt that it is possible for it to hold the arm on a record...) Is your turntable level? Is your tracking weight correct? Can you freely move the arm across the record or is there resistance.

Hope you can solve this problem!

Todd

 

[SweetAdeline]

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Originally Posted by Todd /img/forum/go_quote.gif A couple of things to check - make sure the armlift is going down and releasing the arm onto the album. Make sure you still have a stylus! Make sure your anti skate is not set too high (although I doubt that it is possible for it to hold the arm on a record...) Is your turntable level? Is your tracking weight correct? Can you freely move the arm across the record or is there resistance. Hope you can solve this problem! Todd

Thanks for the help. Prior to me changing the height, there wasn't resistance moving across the record. Now there is a slight bit depending on where I set the height at.

I checked and the weight is correct and the anti skate is low (same as I had it when it was working.) I didn't consider it not being level. I'll have to look into that. I also didn't consider my stylus not being there, ha, but luckily it is, especially since it is relatively new.

 

[SweetAdeline]

Indeed the table was a little off of level, unfortunately after leveling it, nothing changed. Anyone want to buy it?

 

[blueworm]

Its the arm lift.

 

[SweetAdeline]

So... Almost as soon as I got this problem figured out, another one comes up.

It's playing music, but I can barely hear it with my amp on full blast. I thought my preamp had failed, but unfortunately that wasn't it. Then I replaced the interconnects from the pre-amp to the amp, and that didn't do it. Could it be my turntable's RCA cables are bad?

 

[derekbmn]

Check to make sure the removable/replaceable stylus assembly is seated/pushed all the way into the cartridge body. I would suggest removing it and carefully reinsert it.

 

[SweetAdeline]

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Originally Posted by SweetAdeline /img/forum/go_quote.gif So... Almost as soon as I got this problem figured out, another one comes up. It's playing music, but I can barely hear it with my amp on full blast. I thought my preamp had failed, but unfortunately that wasn't it. Then I replaced the interconnects from the pre-amp to the amp, and that didn't do it. Could it be my turntable's RCA cables are bad?

So, I stumbled upon a nice Talking Heads record this weekend at a garage sale, and I remembered that I still had this piece of junk turntable, but it still isn't working, any ideas?

 

[gz76]

Try a different IC between the TT and your phono stage and see how that goes.