The crack sound happened during playback about 10 seconds after the beginning. For 10 seconds I heard good sound from both left and right and then a crack followed by silence.
This is an Apheta 3 that came with my new planar 8 which I'm using for 2 months now.
The LP looks perfect. No scratches. No wobble and no visible defect.
Could there be a possibility that the elongated needle of the Apheta 3 would stick into a too narrow grove and as a result the cantilever got twisted and ruined ?
Rega planar 8/Apheta : Tiny needle arm collapsing on itself
Hi,
It took me a good few weeks to finally be able to extract the enormous potential of my new Planar 8 on my system. Today a Hifi news setup LP arrived in the mail in perfect virgin condition and 10 seconds after I played it I heard a silent crack sound followed by an eerie silence. I looked at the Apheta and realized that the tiny arm holding the needle is twisted sideways.
There was no hit, scratch or any violent motion that could explain how it happened. I listen to LPs for almost 40 years and I never had such an experience.
My biggest fear now is that this is not covered by the warranty :-(
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