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Cartridge alignment question/problem

I have noticed on a couple of turntables, a few different arms and cartridges the following phenomena...during quiet portions of the recording (either during transition between tracks of transition from quiet to loud) that I can hear faintly in the background a "preview" of what the record will play on the next revolution. Basically I think what is happening is that the cartridge is somehow detecting the grooves in the next innermost rotation. I suspect that I have some sort of alignment problem but am not so sure given the fact that I heard this on various setups of mine...which of course could mean that I have been consistently wrong. I have used jigs and protractors etc on each.

Any thoughts from the learned on what could be causing this?

Thanks

Brock
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swampwalker
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I think what you are hearing is "print through" from the master tape.  According to Wikipedia " Print-through is a category of noise caused by contact transfer of signal patterns from one layer of tape to another."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print-through). If so your cartridge is in the clear, and there is nothing you can do about it. 
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