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Help please

I am having problems setting up my Music Hall MMF 9.1. I thought I had everything right but when I was checking every out before listening, I noticed that the tone arm moves towards the outside of the record as soon as I let go of it. I could use a little help. I'm guessing I forgot to do something simple.

Thanks.

Eben.
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piedpiper
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That is simply your anti-skate at work, which compensates for the natural tendency for the geometry of the arm in combination with cartridge drag to pull the arm towards the center. It is possible that the anti- skate is set too high. How much anti-skate is optimal is a point of contention amongst turntable cogniscenti, and is, at the least, cartridge dependent.
piedpiper
753 posts
 
Aha! That would do it! Of course, there's always reading the directions. Do you have a manual?
piedpiper
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Congratulations. Experience is a wonderful thing. Most of us have learned the hard way at some point or other.
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