Re: TURNTABLEisms
Posted by robert on 2006-11-13 5:51:00am
i always figured, if you're just listening to records casually (and not 24 hours a day like kdvs, or "scratching" them or whatever) a belt drive is fine enough. what drives the table isn't nearly as important as the cartridge anyway. downside is you might need to adjust the pitch depending on the record, but that takes 2 seconds.

suggestions: re-attach the cartridge, make sure there's enough downward force on the needle by adjusting the tone arm weight in the back.

and i don't know exactly how your TT is grounded, but that is important.

let us know what went wrong

:Hey Turntable Heads,
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:I just recently "upgraded" from a Sony belt-drive turntable to a Stanton T-60 direct drive Turntable. Now that it is hooked up to my entertainment system, the sound quality is much softer, and tinnier than that of the Sony. I'm sure I connected something incorrectly. Let me know, because I'm pretty sure this turntable is better than the one that I had.
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:Any tips?
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:Did I connect the cartridge wrong? The User-friendly Sony did not require this.
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:Do I automatically need to ground the thing? This shouldn't drastically affect volume, right?
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:Is it something that has to do with connecting a Stanton "mix/scratch" turntable to a conventional Sony Receiver?
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:Maybe it is not better than the one that I had, despite every lp collector I know telling me I need a direct drive. Hell, the sony turntable's arm even automatically reset itself when it finished the side of a record. The stanton doesn't do that.


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