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Brand new vinyl - skips?

I'm new into modern vinyl, so new, in fact, that I set up my TT yesterday and played vinyl for the first time in nearly 20 years. Anyway, I played several albums, from different sources. I played a couple of used albums, and they seemed to play fine and sound excellent.

Then I played three premium, brand-new albums. Two of the three skipped badly and repeatedly. Up until skipping badly, the albums sounded absolutely wonderful. So, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong that I can correct, or if I need to contact the retailer and ask for an exchange. I don't have a record cleaner, either machine or manual, yet so I played the records straight out of the package.

Given my newness, I could imagine a simple cleaning, an adjustment to some part of the setup, or something else could correct the problem. Any insight would be most appreciated.
kthomas

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mcdonald43
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If you are using the JMW9 series unipivot arm I would remove the anti-skating from the arm altogether. I tried it on my Scoutmaster and found it to do more harm than good. I have had no problems with skipping either way however. According to some the JMW9 was designed to use the twist in the cable from the arm to the interconnect box to provide the anti-skating. Some felt it was not enough so VPI produced that add on anti-skating as a solution.
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