Hey everyone,
The table on which I regularly use my turntables isn't the sturdiest. It seems to be inducing a lot of skipping. Is there any way to reduce skipping (I've already tried the counterweights) besides getting a new table?
Thanks.

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anti-skate?


lol, i dont know man.. maybe your needle is turnin to shit

What turntables are we talking about?
If the counterweight part doesn't work, the anti skating may be too high OR your turntable isn't horizontal.

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The table on which I regularly use my turntables isn't the sturdiest

Same problem here. I made my table sturdier by screwing in some pieces of wood as supports on the underside... I wish I had a way to take a pic to show you.

I'm still going to get a new table in the near future. Prolly gonna go with 2 stacks of 3 milk crates filled with bricks. Put a board of wood on top, then a few more bricks to bring the height of the decks to a more comfortable level, then another board on top to set the tables.

Something like this...


Turntable.....Mixer.....Turntable
--------------board--------------
....brick..............brick
--------------board--------------
milk crate.............milk crate
milk crate.............milk crate
milk crate.............milk crate

(Please ignore the dots... I couldn't get my ghetto diagram to space correctly) I figure full of bricks, the crates would make the table quite solid. I'll even have a shelf from the lower board.

Last edited by Mr. Tippy on Sep-12-2004 at 21:09

try freefloats they're quite an amazing contraption !

Only other reasons I can think off is that you need to adjust your anti-skate and/or your needle is really old

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I have Stanton Str8-80s. I'm still using the needles that came with them two years ago. Looks like I need to go get some new ones.

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Originally posted by DJ Dingel I have Stanton Str8-80s. I'm still using the needles that came with them two years ago. Looks like I need to go get some new ones.

LOL!! 2 years??? Yes I should say you need to replace the needles.

yeah the styli need replacing. you should replace them approx every 6 months or so (depending on how much hammer you give them).

if they still fuck up you can try adjusting the tonearm height up a notch or two, but re-balance the tonearm afterwards

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