Pioneer SX-1000 TD Dead Ceramic Phono Input

[vortalexfan]

OK So here's the odd part about all of this, right after I fixed the ceramic phono input the record changer I was using (the previously mentioned Motorola rebadged BSR Component Record Changer that used to be my great grandfather's) sounded absolutely horrendous when I tried playing an old Columbia Masterworks Record that had pipe organ, 4 4-part choruses and a brass ensemble performing the music of Giovanni Gabrielli in San Marco Cathedral in Venice Italy, a recording dating to the 1960s with the famed organist E. Power Biggs at the helm (the organ console.)
The higher registers of the soprano voices of the Texas Boys Choir members who were performing the soprano parts of the vocals sounded super shrill and distorted.

So I out of curiosity tried out my old Zenith 2G Record Changer (that was salvaged from an old Console Stereo a while back) and hooked it up, and the record played fine on that record changer so I'm wondering if the suspension was starting to go on the cartridge on my great-grandfather's old record changer (even though it was a NOS ElectroVoice Tetrad Cartridge that I installed in the unit after I got it.)

[zeno]

If the cartridge was an OEM Tetrad the color on the socket
indicates the output. Tetrads were known to go int often. We
kept all the colors in stock.
You could also try the AUX in or tape in & see how it sounds.
Also the phono in #1 & #2 should both be for magnetic cartridges
with a switch for ceramic on one of them IMHO.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by zeno

If the cartridge was an OEM Tetrad the color on the socket
indicates the output. Tetrads were known to go int often. We
kept all the colors in stock.
You could also try the AUX in or tape in & see how it sounds.
Also the phono in #1 & #2 should both be for magnetic cartridges
with a switch for ceramic on one of them IMHO.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

Phono 1 (up position on the switch) is for both MAGnetic and CERamic phono input and Phono 2 (down position on the switch) is for MAGnetic only (I'm using the exact wording in the owners/service manual.)