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Posted by Dojomaster26 on Sep-28-2006 19:56:

Skipping/looping vinyl Problems

Hi guys,

I'm pretty new to vinyl, since I've been mainly working with CDs up until now. I've bought a lot of new/used vinyl, a Gemini TT-02 (it's a start) and the cart that it came with (CN-25). I'm using the Gemini slipmat that came with the deck.

Most of my vinyls play fine, but on some vinyls my needle is catching onto something and sk-sk-sk-sk-skipping to where it will play a portion of the track, I hear a *pop*, and the loop plays again until I move the needle. The thing that baffles me if that this will happen on pirstine copies of vinyl that I have (ie no visible scratches), while on some vinyls that are visibly scratched the song plays fine.

I don't know what should be replaced/fixed to fix this problem. Are the vinyl's in need of a professional cleaning with sonething like Gruv Glide? Is it my needle, since it skips on records that look fine but plays through vinyls that are obviously damaged? Something else? With CDs I know that either the CD or the player are damaged, but with vinyl there are too many factors to consider.

Can anyone please give some advice on this?

Posted by Jarvmeister on Sep-28-2006 22:20:

Sounds to me like your decks are in need of a service.

I heard of this happening to someone's 1210's before on this page - it was driving them nuts. Turned out the tone arm needed adjusting and it was just a teeny weeny screw. It's probably not balanced right and will need lubrication, or perhaps tightening. Something to do with anti skating gone wrong.

Thats just my initial thought though, I might be way off - hopefully someone with a TT-02 will be able to say they've had your exact problem and what they did to fix it.

I think it's unlikely to be your vinyls, I've had damamged vinyl and it never behaves like you described.

Hope you get it sorted.

Jarv

Posted by KilldaDJ on Sep-28-2006 22:31:

yeh it sounds like the weight of the arm needs some re-balancing work

or the stylus needles are a bit dodgy or something?

Posted by chris harrington on Sep-29-2006 03:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Jarvmeister
Sounds to me like your decks are in need of a service.

I heard of this happening to someone's 1210's before on this page - it was driving them nuts. Turned out the tone arm needed adjusting and it was just a teeny weeny screw. It's probably not balanced right and will need lubrication, or perhaps tightening. Something to do with anti skating gone wrong.

yeh that was me who had that problem except it wasnt the 1210's it was the numark TTX. heres the link to that post. http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...ntable+skipping

i hope that helps

Posted by Dojomaster26 on Sep-30-2006 02:53:

Thanks guys for all of the advice! I'm going to try to re-balance my tone-arm, and see if the screw on my tone-arm is too tight or too loose. I'll keep you guys posted on what happens.

Thanks again,

Mike