Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs

As you can see even +/- 3cu is important, but it's not that bad with OP's tonearm and his cartridge

From viewing the YT video, it appears to me that the arm/cartridge combo is just barely outside of the optimal range and this is borne out by some of the posts above. The thing about this is a slight amount of record warp can really affect the setup a lot more- leading to some LPs being quiet and others not. This being a smaller speaker (I was unable to find if it was ported or not) the woofer is going to flop around quite a lot with out-of-band signals.


The idea of going to lower mass mounting screws is a good one (worth a try- its cheap; maybe also remove the stylus guard), better yet a cartridge with slightly lower compliance.

Put the speaker grilles back on. If you can't see them pumping it can't bother you. (Only partly tongue in cheek).

I remember when I was young, but I never faced this phenomenon when I played pirated LPs on a cheap turntable. Even if this is the case with certain LPs, I don't think this is the only cause of LPs pressing.
A lot of people have given me good advise, and especially I'm going to focus on the rumble and try to solve this problem.

I'm sorry for not being able to thank everyone who gave me good advice
Thank you very much.

I experienced exactly the same thing through my ProAc D38's, the woofers would flap about all over the place without producing anything audible. My phone preamp has a subsonic filter, engaging that sorted it out. I was reluctant about the idea of a filter at first, but I couldn't detect any audible change to the sound quality so was more than happy to leave it on.