It could be DC on the potentiometer. If you're using a phono pre-amp (or your turntable has one built-in) it could be outputting some dc voltage which can make the pot sound dirty when it is moving. You may need some fresh caps in the phono pre. I suppose it is also possible that there is a voltage differential between the chassis of your turntable and your integrated that is putting some dc in the circuitry.
Scratchy Volume Control for Analog
This is strange and I admit that I haven't spent hours traking it down, but maybe someone's run into the same thing. I have a turntable and a cd player plugged into my integrated. On the input with the turntable, the volume control on the integrated sounds scratchy when I turn it back and forth, but if I plug the cd player into the same input, the noise is gone and the noise moves to the input with the turntable. There is no noise while I'm playing records - just when I move the volume up and down like when you turn them to clean the controls. How can this be?
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