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Through with Buzz.

My turntable has just started creating an obnoxious buzz. Maybe you can help me fix it.

When I lift the arm, and the motor fires up, there is a loud buzz coming through the speakers. The sound stops at different times, but usually in the amount of time it takes for me to lower the needle to the record. Sometimes less time, sometimes more. When the record is over, and the arm is automatically lifted and dropped into the arm holder, the buzz comes back between when the arm is dropped and when the motor stops. If it weren't so loud, I wouldn't care, but man is it obnoxious.

I checked all connections, and they are secure.

Any ideas? Or should I just bring it to the shop?

The player is a Pioneer PL15d-II if that matters.

Thanks.

KB
karlrborne

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karlrborne OP
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Thanks Lewm, I'll check it out. There is no correlation to me touching the tone arm.

KB
karlrborne OP
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Thanks for the feedback. This is most certainly a buzz and not a hum. When the buzz stops, quickly after the needle touches the record, it usually is gone for good. Very, very rarely it buzzes for a split second during play, then disappears. But that makes me nervous to play anything too loud.

Due to my lack of understanding of how these turntable operate, I think I'll bring it in for a fix so I can get back to tearing into some Steely Dan, among others. My current favorite song to play on the turn table is actually a Robert Palmer song, "Every Kinda People." Love it.

I'm not sure if there is a dimmer switch. But I think Atmasphere is on to something.

Again, thanks.
karlrborne OP
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I tried to watch and listen intently to the problem tonight, and at the end of the third record, it stopped spinning altogether. Maybe the motor is shot. Off to the repair man tomorrow.
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