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im a sausage
Nov 19, 2004

bacon! posted:

I'm having a really wacky problem with my turntable. It's a 70s model Sanyo, with a "brand new" (last 2 years) Shure cartridge. It sounds great, but sometimes, in between songs, right before a new song begins, you can hear about 0.5-1.0 seconds of the song very faintly BEFORE it starts. At first I thought it was an effect in the recording of the song I was listening to before I noticed it several times over multiple bands/records.

I have carefully calculated the tracking weight & anti-skate, but I don't have one of those protractor things to mess with the distance measurement on the cartridge itself...could that be the problem?

It might be "print through" on the master tape itself, where adjacent layers of tape's magnetic imprint imparts itself on the next layer (if the song was mastered on analogue equipment) or perhaps that vinyl has its own version of this, where physical disturbances (ie the signal on the cutting head) during the cutting process of the lacquer bleed through to adjacent grooves

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