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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
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sugarbrie
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And.....if nothing happens above (which tests turntable), then reverse from phono preamp to audio preamp to see if it is the phono preamp.

If not, then plug CD player into audio preamp where the phono preamp is currently, or plug phono preamp in where CD is to see if it is the inputs on preamp..
sugarbrie
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I've seen selector switches go bad in spots, so while there are just wires, things can go wrong with individual inputs on preamps. Take the extra minute and check everything.

You know the how it goes. The one thing you don't check is what ends up being wrong..

But yeah, I suspect the cartridge as well...
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