What could be wrong?


I was playing an LP on my turntable, changed LP's, cleaned the stylus with my trusty Zerodust and proceeded to play the next LP only to discover that the volume on the left channel was reduced noticeably. At first I thought that maybe one of the tubes in my preamp was dying, so I played a cd on my digital player and everything seemed fine. I checked the DIN and RCA connectors on my tonearm cable, and everything seems ok. I turned the phono preamp on and off and still the left channel volume was reduced.

Do you think that my zerodust gel cleaner somehow damaged my stylus? Or could it be that my phono preamp suddenly malfunctioned? I'm a bit baffled as to what is wrong...

Any suggestions?

calgarian
calgarian5355

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I had this problem with a Sumiko Bluepoint Special and cured it by gyrating the cantelever around in a very small circle. I don't know why this worked but as a last resort I was just screwing around with it trying to find sht was wrong and got lucky. It has croped up once again with the same cart and was cured the same way.
After the above, contact cleaner followed by an enhancer will ensure a trouble free and sonically superior future.