just got a 1200.. went to hook up the cartridge and headshell earlier and i get no sound out of the RCA cables. i hear sound from the cartridge but nothing coming into my mixer. tested the same cart/headshell on my buddy's TTX-1 and works perfectly. what could be the problem? the 1200 is only a couple years old, in good condition.. does the 1200 have different headshell terminals than TTX-1's or something?

thanks in advance for any suggestions.. i hope nothing is wrong with my deck

btw, here is a pic of the contacts. anything look wrong with them?

Yikes! Those contacts are fcuked. Basically the cartridge isn't connecting to the turntable properly. Think yo might have to get it looked at.

Same thing happened with me.
Have you tried cleaning your contacts? Clean them properly using a soft,wet cloth. Try again. If your existing cartridge dosen't work, try a different cartridge. What you also may try is a cartridge w/ integrated headshell (Shure Whitelabel, any ortofon's).
Hope this helps.

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Spacy dreamer

This may sound dumb, but is the mixer on phono? I've seen this problem many times...also clean the contacts

damn well then i'm going to take it back to the store i got it from, they told me it was fully working, "else we wouldn't be selling it"!

i did try cleaning them with no luck. and replacing the tonearm seems expensive... hopefully I get a refund

maybe its your RCA cables....
when i bought my 1200s off e-bay i had to have mine replaced...
so look into that, its a lot cheaper then having your tonearm replaced

well.. i took it back for a full refund. they were cool about it, very apologetic and said they would try to fix it, and if they do get it fixed they will let me know in case i want to buy it back

did you ground the turntable? the little black wire..

Jay

yes it was grounded. i'm not a turntable noob or whatever there was probably a wire disconnected inside of the tonearm.. but i didn't feel like dealing with that.

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Originally posted by djkoolaide yes it was grounded. i'm not a turntable noob or whatever there was probably a wire disconnected inside of the tonearm.. but i didn't feel like dealing with that.

was just checking.. ya never know glad you got it taken care of !

Jay