How To Control The Eager Beaver

@larryi 

  I suspect that is the issue.  My dealer had just checked the settings on the tt and cart.  When I manually lower the arm about half the time the issue occurs; probably I am setting it past the hill on some occasions.

I agree with Larry in that I think the stylus is sliding on the raised lip. That plus too low a setting of VTF could result in the observed problem. But I would also point out that the skating force does pull the stylus inward toward the label, so too much AS (which pulls in the opposite direction) would not be expected to be the cause of this problem. Maybe try increasing VTF by just a hair so as not to exceed the recommended max? And see that that does.

However, the skating force alone is usually not sufficient in magnitude to account for the observation, unless the tonearm is wildly misaligned. Think of it, zero anti-skate, which results in unopposed skating force, all other things being properly adjusted, does not cause the stylus to skip outer grooves per se. Moreover, the skating force is not maximal at the outermost grooves.

Good turntables are wonderful things, but they sure are a pain in the butt!

I don’t have any problems like that when listening to Qobuz’s higher quality than vinyl music on my mid-fi system (NA C700, Monitor Audio Silver floorstanders).

Wow!!!  great job of diagnostics on this issue APHs. That your knowledge on such an analog subject is great is not surprising. It’s that the use of digital streaming is so prevalent in this community I thought maybe analog use was nearing its death.