My turntable sounds like the speed is too slow


I have an Acoustic Signature Primus.  It seems like the speed is too slow and just produces slow muffled vocals.

I changed the drive belt, and it didn’t make a difference.

Can you suggest what may be the problem?

Thanks!

alexnguyensound

The cell phone apps for turntable speed are not accurate.  In my experience they read fast by about .3 to .5 rpm.  If your cell phone app is reading 33.33 chances are your ears are correct and the TT is slow.

 

Another way to check speed is time the length of the recording and see if it matches the stated time on the sleave.

Playing a 45RPM record at 33 1/3?

I bet I'm not the only one with a new and unheard record who forgot to change the speed and thought it sounded strange...

If you don't trust your cellphone app, maybe mark the platter, play a record and use the phone's stopwatch function to time 100 revolutions which you can count. Should take 180 seconds. If it does, time to look downstream starting with the stylus, the cartridge the mounting geometry etc.

First off make sure it is the turntable. Do your other sources sound normal to you?

If they do you have a problem either with your cartridge or phono stage. Look at the cartridge carefully, it the cantilever straight? It the diamond still there at the end? Does it look normal under magnification? If you have another cartridge set it up and listen. If it sounds fine the first cartridge is defective. If it sounds bad you have a problem with your phono stage. 

Good Luck