Maggie Astrosonic Console

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Originally Posted by zombie1210

New needle. It still skips after a minute or so. I think it is something to do with the automatic feature. Like maybe it needs to be "timed"? I have no idea how to do that.

If it truly is skipping , and not the tone arm binding , there are generally three causes , one of which you've eliminated . With a new needle , the other two possibilities are bad records , or the "tracking force" of the tone arm is too light . If you can freely move the tone arm from it's "parked" position to where the end of the record would cause the next record to be automatically selected my bet would be on the tracking force being too light . But if there is ANY binding of the tone arm during it's sweep across the record that of course must be addressed before any tracking force adjustments are considered . Remember , the heavier the tracking force the less inclined even bad records will be to skip , but the heavier it is the more wear each record will suffer with each play . The right tracking force is a delicate adjustment between having a good condition record not skip VS shaving out huge chunks of the record's grooves with each play .

PS , an old trick to see if it's too light is to balance a coin on top of the tone arm and see if the skipping stops . If it does , your tracking force is light . If not , your arm is binding in it's sweep .....