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How to test a cartridge?

Yesterday, while listening to some LP's, I lost the entire left chanel. I swapped out the pre-amp, the phono-pre, took the step-up transformer out of the chain, changed turntables, changed interconnects, changed speaker cables, and the result remained the same (dead quiet on the left chanel).

Today I put an ohm meter to the contacts on the cartridge (it is the only one I have, so I can't swap it like the other stuff) and got equal resistance readings for both chanels.

What am I missing? This one has me stumped.

Thanks in advance, Dave.

BTW, the digital front end works fine.
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edle
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I think either the preamp or the cartridge have problem.

I suggest you to connect the right phono cable(the one with sound) to the left input in your preamp(phono input) and the left to the right. If there is sound from the left but no sound from the right. Then the is a problem with the cartridge.

If there is no sound from the left and sound from the right side, then the problem is in your preamp.
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