Anyone have this turntable issue?

Try this, and it may seem simple. Move the stylus to the lead-in groove and before you lower it, move it just enough such that it touches down after the music has been cut into the vinyl. In other words, try lowering the stylus anywhere on the record where the music groove has already been cut.

This does not sound like a static issue to me ( but it could very well be an issue of high static charge). Does this happen with a wide variety of records or are you only hearing this wth one album?

If your mute is actually working then it is most likely a high static discharge.

My London Reference is very sensitive to landing and lift-off from the record and it has nothing whatsoever to do with static. I’ve seen this lead in pop noise also with my modified Denon 103.3 and it seems to happen more so with newer albums where the vinyl has a rim-lip, sometime I can see the stylus make a mechanical jump to land into the lead-in groove.


I found this on another site and this is what I’m referring to in my above post.

another author wrote:

“It seems that about 1 in ever 4 to 5 times I start a record when the stylus touches the lead-in groove it jumps a few grooves in to the first couple of seconds of the first song. I was wondering if this was normal because I do not remember my old Sony Direct drive doing this but my new table is alot more precises and sensitive? I did some Google searching and found this on Wikipedia "# Because of a slight slope in the lead-in groove, it was possible for the stylus to skip ahead several grooves when settling into position at the start of the recording."”.