I purchased a high-end cartridge and it arrived with one channel dead. The seller assisted in getting it serviced by the distributor and all was fine. The consensus is that a lead came undone during shipping. A moving coil cartridge has EXTREMELY fine wires. This is why caution should be used when attempting a continuity test to be sure that the ohm-meter current is extremely low since a DC resistive load of a few ohms could result in a large test current with an unsuitable tester, basically turning the wires into a blown fuse.
No right channel in new cartridge
I just got a Sumiko Blackbird & mounted it. I have no right channel. I haven’t fine tuned the mounting but, That shouldn’t make me lose a whole channel. Once or twice I’ve heard a hum in the right channel before I put the needle down. When it goes down it stops & goes silent. The channel isn’t effected in CD, DVD or radio.
i bought it here(all positives on the seller) & it only had 10 hours on it. It didn’t come in the original box but came screwed into a box... seemed pretty secure. I checked & reconnected all the pins, jacks into the AVR & ground wire.
What should I try next?
i bought it here(all positives on the seller) & it only had 10 hours on it. It didn’t come in the original box but came screwed into a box... seemed pretty secure. I checked & reconnected all the pins, jacks into the AVR & ground wire.
What should I try next?