Skipping

[SteveFord 1,140]

My turntable has been skipping (A LOT), even with brand new albums.

I finally called Ortofon for suggestions on tracking force.

They said to go up a tenth of a gram to 1.6 and that it takes a good 50 to 60 hours for the rubber mounts in the cartridge to break in.

The Ortofon tech's suggestion was to simply let the cartridge rest on an album with the turntable off to put some weight on the rubber mounts.

If I should still have problems, they said to send it in and they'll issue a replacement of need be. Good company.

[OBI56 23]

Skipping is usually a sign of too much friction in the tonearm pivots, insufficient trackign force or way too much anti-skating, but that shouldn't apply to your tonearm Steve. Let me look into this tonight after work; been a LOOOOOONG time since I have dealt with skipping that was not related to one of these conditions.

[SteveFord 1,140]

Obi,

I replaced the astonishingly viscous goo in the tone arm cup, adjusted the azimuth and reset the tracking force back to 1.5 grams.

She still skip SO I said heck with this and adjusted (decreased) the anti skating to where it will glide past the "pop".

Not quite where I would think the anti skating should be but that is such a bizarre contraption if it's happy, I'm happy.

One feature that I miss from the Stanton is the brush to keep the crud off of the diamond. Me needum demagnetizing gun.