ARCHIVED FORUM -- March 2012 to February 2022READ ONLY FORUM
This is the second Archived Forum which was active between 1st March 2012 and 23rd February 2022
Hi guys hopefully someone will recognize my problem. Bought off ebay (because it looks so fantastic) with a fault of running too slowly (Grease is fine so may be the belt it too tight ) anyway the fault that is bothering me is that it sounds very poor, very little low frequencies and distorted slightly. I do have an RIAA filter in my amp and my other record player sounds fine though it. Taking the SP10 cartidge apart i found that the stylus stayed inside the aluminium cover as opposed to having to be 'levered off with a knife from the cartridge.' ( as stated in the how to replace stylus section )My question is this, should the stylus be pushed on flat to cartridge? If so, should the 4 pins of the cartridge actually touch the sylus cross bit or does there have to be a gap? I'd imagine a gap is needed but how big a gap? My current arrangement would mean that the separation is about 0.25mm is this too much?( I get the feeling that my cartridge is not an original...)thanks in advance