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Originally Posted by Benny003
I played the RR95 black vinyl from the WH last night for the first time on my Pro-ject Debut III and it was a horrible experience. Listening to Seek Up it basically skipped every 30 seconds. Sometimes it would eventually plow through it after skipping 5 or 6 times, other times I had to get up to reset it. I tried increasing the tracking weight, but that didn't do anything. After about the 12th different spot of skipping that I counted I just gave up. I wanted to smash the record with a hammer at that point. I tried brushing the record off with a carbon fiber brush 3 times. The last time I did it with a flash light to make sure I got every little piece of dust off it. I tried cleaning my needle with a needle brush as well. No difference.
When it played it sounded good, but it was unlistenable with the skipping. I have probably 60 or 70 vinyl albums in my collection and I've never had such a bad skipping problem before. What am I missing?
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First question would be is the skip a "jump", meaning it skips ahead; or is it a repetitive skip? A repetitive skip means there's a particle in the groove and can probably be fixed with a wet clean. If it is a jump skip, check for physical damage. A jump-type skip should only occur with a noticeable physical damage to the groove. Otherwise it is calibration, and the needle isn't properly tracking through the grooves and dynamic passages. Check to ensure your VTF is near the high end of the factory settings, make sure the cantilever isn't bent, and check for proper cart alignment
Let me know if any of that helps.
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Originally Posted by rschlad04
Out of curiosity, which vinyl releases have they screwed up? I've played all of them on my debut carbon, haven't noticed any major problems. Maybe I've just been lucky.
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Well Big Whiskey had off center pressings as well as wrong sides (side B was actually side D, etc). AFTW was basically just the CD pressed to vinyl, so not a fuck up, just a waste. UTTAD had a mispress with the wrong version of Jimi Thing, plus they used the analog tapes for the remaster but cut from digital - another wasted chance for improved fidelity. Then the Crash splatter release from Amazon wasn't as pretty as they advertised.
Some legit complaints, some not so much.