I have successfully "regrooved" a skip by applying a small downward pressure on the headshell with my finger while the record was playing. It didn't always work, and you obviously wouldn't try this with a Lyra. If you have another turntable or another headshell with a heavy duty cartridge (DJ or scratch style) mounted, it may be worth a try.
can record skips be fixed?
can anything be done to an lp which develops a repeating skip, which repeats until I get up and go blow on the tonearm to push it along? It pretty much renders those records junk. Often there isn't even a visible scratch or defect at that spot.
Disabling anti-skate seems to help; the lateral forces seem to push the tonearm past skips sometimes. Some cartridges and tonearms seem more susceptible to this effect than others, and it doesn't seem to correlate with "quality" - quite the opposite, as I have moved up the ladder of Origin Live tonearms and Lyra cartridges, the problem seems to have gotten worse.
Is this true of turntables as well, some are more resistant to skipping than others?
Disabling anti-skate seems to help; the lateral forces seem to push the tonearm past skips sometimes. Some cartridges and tonearms seem more susceptible to this effect than others, and it doesn't seem to correlate with "quality" - quite the opposite, as I have moved up the ladder of Origin Live tonearms and Lyra cartridges, the problem seems to have gotten worse.
Is this true of turntables as well, some are more resistant to skipping than others?
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