The table should not be that finicky, but you could have inadvertently made the problem worse by lessening the tracking force (VTF). If there is adjustable anti-skate, and you reduced teh VTF, anti-skate would need to be reduced as well. Its also possible that you have gunk on your stylus from used and new LPs. Buy some Magic Eraser at your grocery store and read the thread on this forum on its use. If that does not work and if there is no binding of the arm due to improper dressing of the tone arm wiring, bring it back to the dealer for re-set. Also you will need a stylus force gauge if you want to experiment with changing VTF. At that level, a $20 shure balance type gauge should be sufficient.
Vinyl Virgin seeks additional advice
My inherited Rega P1 (see http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1200066271&read&3&4& for history) got its new cart, a Ortofon 2M Red, installed by a local audio dealer. The first day of operation was great, good sound, no skipping on new and used LP's. The next day it wouldn't play more than what sounded like a rotation, repeating a two second phrase. I slid the counterweight towards the pivot point and it played through a few cuts before starting to skip again. I have leveled the table and beyond that I don't know what to do. Any ideas of what may be going on? Should the turntable be this finicky?
Thanks for your input.
Thanks for your input.