Knock1 is correct. Review your logic and buy a new cartridge.
Unexpected issues with Rega planar TT, a respectful manufacturer product?
About a year ago I bough a Rega planar 2 turntable. I do not play much LPs, I bought it just for a few LPs I have. It should have around 20 hours of burn-in now. It turned out that a more than $600 unit has a 1-dollar phono cable incorporated into it (which, by some reason is called a "premium" one). In fact, I did not see an RCA cable that bad even with cheap equipment. Well, not really nice but this was not yet fatal. A few weeks ago, my attempt to use the TT has failed. One of the channels did not work, and after a few tests it was clear that it is TT, one of the RCA terminals. There was no force made on it or something similar.
Surprisingly, i did not find a technical support option on the Rega web page, they merely send you to their dealers. I have contacted the local Rega dealer and the answer was that they can check replace the cable at a some cost (whereas supposedly, it has a "life-time warranty" and it is a practically new unit). My question was, if they have some instructions to replace their "premium" built-in RCA cable, that I could follow for the replacement. Since then, there was no answer. I also contacted the US/International Rega dealer with whom I bough the TT, still no answer.
In addition, the TT has another problem, just from the beginning. Normally, when it is powered on, the plate moves to the opposite direction. After several (identical) attempts (on/off), it may finally choose the right direction. This is of course quite bothering but i did not try to clarify this issue before since i do not use the TT often.
Normally I try to avoid complains but i think that this case is "quite special".
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Guys, i should be missing something. The signal may be coming out of a single channel/wire. If I swap the channels the signal from the working channel will move to the other channel, while the other channel will remain silent. So if, after swapping the wires/channels on the cartridge the problem moves to the other channel, then the cartridge is potentially able to reproduce both channels, so the problem should be in the silent wire. In what precisely am I wrong? By the way, the problematic right channel is not completely silent. A barely auditionable signal accompanied with some noise is coming out from that channel. Thanks again guys for your posts. Nodari |
@niodari - OK - this is an example of how I understood your post... First case represents the cartridge connected correctly
But swapping the wires on ONLY the cartridge
Is that what you are experiencing?
Regards - Steve |
This was a very good suggestion, thanks!
Thanks for this note that made me check my logic. Yes, since I didn't change the channels in the phono input and both channels sounded in the two opposite settings, the wires of both channels should be fine (the same right channel that did not sound, it worked when the signal came out from the cartridge to that channel, and this happened because the channels were swapped on the cartridge - the left channel signal now went through the wires of the right channel). Perhaps, since likely it is the cartridge, it is not the worst outcome. But how the cartridge got broken after just 20-30 hours of use? I have to look for a new cartridge, would you have any suggestions for P2?
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