ProJect Turntable Possible Tonearm Issues

[Mikado463]

I've never needed a scale. Even if it knocks lightly back, I can tell when it's at zero. Zero out the number ring then turn it to your required weight.

LOL, never having and never needing are two different things ! I look at it this way, something is wrong with your set-up and I'll bet money the TT is not the culprit, rather the operator......

 

[Squishman]

I will take my turntable tools over this weekend and sort this out. He lives just south of me. That turntable should work just fine for him.

Bring something that you want to hear on my system.

 

[highfigh]

while I agree in what you said, in my world, good enough doesn't cut it. IMO being anal with regard to TT set-up is paramount to performance.

That type of scale has worked for millions of turntable users, but I agree- it's best to know, rather than assume it's accurate. However, it's easy to calculate the distance needed to reach the correct tracking weight.

 

[highfigh]

I've never needed a scale. Even if it knocks lightly back, I can tell when it's at zero. Zero out the number ring then turn it to your required weight.

BTW- leaving the anti-skate weight on the arm skews the balance, even tough it's a very light weight.

If you have decent record stores or if Mark has them, test discs help in setting overhang, etc- most (Shure, Audio-Technica and Telarc) have an overhang gauge on one side of a disc and the recording levels are varied, so distortion can be heard when the adjustments are wrong. We used an oscilloscope when our store conducted turntable clinics- even if people didn't buy anything, they left with their turntable adjusted as well as it could be.

Let me know if you need the pressing numbers- I have all three test discs.

 

[TLS Guy]

BTW- leaving the anti-skate weight on the arm skews the balance, even tough it's a very light weight.

If you have decent record stores or if Mark has them, test discs help in setting overhang, etc- most (Shure, Audio-Technica and Telarc) have an overhang gauge on one side of a disc and the recording levels are varied, so distortion can be heard when the adjustments are wrong. We used an oscilloscope when our store conducted turntable clinics- even if people didn't buy anything, they left with their turntable adjusted as well as it could be.

Let me know if you need the pressing numbers- I have all three test discs.

I have everything I need.

 

[Squishman]

I have everything I need.

I figured as much.

 

[Squishman]

I did solve the issue with the tonearm 'knocking back" lightly against the holder. I didn't fix that on purpose, but I noticed that when a record got almost to the end, the string for the weight was touching the tonearm mechanism. So, my hanger was a little out of place. I carefully bent it in a tad just to the point where the string doesn't touch. Still awfully close, but I do not think it's touching all through the record now. And now after that, my tonearm doesn't go back. I'll let TLS Guy look it over before I tweak anything else.

 

[Eppie]

Good to know it was something simple. The cuing arm (and the Q Up) should both contain a viscous dampening fluid that slows the arm down. I don't think the proximity to a window should be a problem. The fluid is quite thick but the draft from a window is only a few degrees.

 

[Squishman]

No draft at the window. It was just a guess being almost a million degrees below zero. The QUp is just spring loaded and doesn't come into play until the end of the dead wax.