Stereo cartrdge now playing mono!!


My Hana SL (after a move to a new house only gives me mono! I have double checked the phono equalizer and connecting pins. At present I am just listening off the phono equalizer which reproduces normal stereo with another source.Any ideas? 

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The Decca London had a top that could be removed by sliding it off the cartridge body.  Then you had access to a platform that fixed the position of two of the coils using two set screws that if re-set in unison could move the platform up or down.  By pure ignorance, I and a friend converted our stereo Decca London cartridges to mono, simply by maladjustment of that platform.  No modern cartridge that I know about would by its construction permit the user to do such a thing.  Funnily, both of us thought we had improved the sound, until we each separately realized what we had wrought.