Turntable arm wobbly? Setup advise


Hi I have recently bought another turntable. I had a couple tables a few years back. All Nottinghams. The new one is a spacedeck with heavy kit. I installed the cartridge and looks like its aligned right on my protractor. I've some this before so I'm pretty confident that I got it right. Tracking force is set at approx 2.0 grams for the dynavector xx-2 cart, VTA looks close arm just below parallel in the back.

The sound is pretty good no but to me it looks like the cart is pulling in and out slightly as the record is playing like slightly wobbling to the inside and outside as the record is playing. I don't know if this might have to do with the anti skate? The seems to sound better with no anti skate at all. My dealer I remember years ago told me to just remove the whole anti skate mechanism on my dais.

Also to my eye it looks like the azimuth might be slightly off the head shell is slightly not level. Is there a way to adjust this on the ace space arm.

Thanks, Ryan
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Showing 2 responses by sarcher30

Sounds like an off center spindle hole in that record. Try some other records. If it's not the record then you might have a compliance mismatch causing the arm to oscillate. If that is the case then moving the TT support and/or trying different materials under the TT can sometimes solve that problem. Is your TT on a suspended floor?
It's fairly easy to tell if the spindle hole is off center.
If the blank grooves in between tracks appear to move back
and forth as the record spins then it's off center. The
tonearm has to follow this movement and will appear to move
back and forth. If the blank grooves don't move back and
forth but your tonearm still wobbles then it is something
else.

I believe your tonearm is a unipivot and they will wobble a
little at first till they find equilibrium. If your TT setup
is on a suspended floor footfalls can cause the arm to
wobble for a little while as well.

Sorry to hear about your phono stage. Cartridge setup should
have nothing to do with why it malfunctioned.