Need help with turntable adjustments.

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i have a pretty low-quality turntable, and i've noticed over the past few weeks that it has been playing my LPs too fast.

as a test, today i queued up DAF's Mein Herz Macht Bum with my Mp3 version and it was noticeably faster. so, how do i go about rectifying this situation?

Grell (Grell), Sunday, 12 February 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

My records are playing too fast!!

dmun drive-in (dmun), Sunday, 12 February 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

could we have a i love vinyl sub-board?

ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, just a ready supply of links to the obsessive, detail-oriented experts over at the Vinyl Asylum board.

Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

I got a new stylus today for the first time in...over 10 years. Joy Division "New Dawn Fades" is where it's at.

Bimble brings a lawn chair to antartica so he can sit and drink silver coff (Bim, Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't buy turntables off someone named Elvis Santana. That's what I did and I paid the unfortunate price.

Check above the pitch adjust for a little hole you can put a narrow screwdriver in to turn and ajdust accordingly so that the red dots on the plate are still. If your turntable has neither the small hole nor the dots on the plate, I have no idea what to say other than take it in to someone.

Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

you know the big ring on the 1200, at the base of the tonearm assembly? is there a standard setting for that?

GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

the "arm height adjustment" ring, i guess it's called.

GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:05 (sixteen years ago)

it depends on the height of your cartridge in millimeters. "standard" is 2.75 but that is just the average median point.

more info (PDF file):

http://www.nordiskmusik.se/default.asp?id=5406

sleeve, Friday, 17 April 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

in one of my vinyl geek books I seem to recall (or was it an ILM thread?) stories about some poor vinyl junkie who measured the thickness of all his records and adjusted the arm height for each one individually before playing.

sleeve, Friday, 17 April 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

oh dear god.

thanks for the help!

GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 April 2009 04:05 (sixteen years ago)

Question - I have a cheap Technics and I have no problem adjusting the speed at 33rpm. However, at 45 rpm, when I play around with the pitch adjuster, the turntable often completely stops spinning (and then I need to increase or decrease just slightly the speed). Any explanation?

baaderonixx, Friday, 17 April 2009 07:53 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Why do my new cartridges of the same make, skip more than my old, worn out ones? this has happened twice now.

EDB, Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:12 (fourteen years ago)


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