Jereostereo
Active Member
Hi All. Years-long lurker, first post. I decided that today was the day to actually begin interacting with this wonderful community that has helped me literally hundreds of times with my audio adventures, and that the best way to start would be to just post about the first issue that popped into my mostly empty mind in the course of the day. So here goes. I recently traded three cassette decks for a Yamaha YP-800. Nice trade but no headshell came with the table. I have quite an assortment of headshells with good carts and styli that I have accumulated over the years. I just can't quite get the Yammie to operate smoothly with any of them, and I'm wondering why. There are issues with skipping and cart scraping. If I lower the vertical tonearm adjustment I get scraping, if I raise there seems to be a skipping problem. Have tried heavier and lighter weights. I've adjusted enough TTs to think I should be able to dial in this beautiful table. So is the YP-800 just extremely finicky or does it need the original headshell for proper operation?