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Cartridge suddenly sounds muffled ?

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TrevorBarten

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I was playing aeound a bit with a turnable and trying to figure out what cartridge I should mount on it. When I got to one of my 412 mk3s I figured that it sounded great so I left it on the tt. However after 40 minutes of listening it suddenly started sounding muffled, kinda similar to how a turntable sounds muffled when there is old grease on the solder joints of the phono cable. Anyhow I figured the stylus was just dirty so I cleaned it but that didn't improve anything. I actually own 2 of this cartridge so I tried the stylus with my other cartridge and that sounded fine. So does anyone know what happened here ? Did my cartridge just die on me ? I was thinking maybe the headshell leads where to loose so I tried it with a different headshell aswell but again no cigar.
 
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Perhaps an accidental adjustment of the phono settings? Try removing and cleaning your interconnects?
 
Did you clean the pins on the cartridge ? Id try that then give it another shot.

Nashou
 
Maybe something in the faulty cartridge preventing the stylus from being seated properly?
 
According to the OP the same stylus sounded fine in another cartridge body so probably not a gunky needle in this case :-)
 
The first two questions regarding the cart I would ask myself would be:
1. Is the tip still there?
2. Does the suspension still suspend as expected?
 
Everyong telling me that the stylus is the issue. Please read the post. I tried the stylus with a different cartridge and it sounded fineso I really doubt that's the problem.
 
May as well go down the list:

1. Degauss the cartridge by playing a loud, dynamic record and touching the RCA plugs, L and R, to each other, + to -, and - to +.
2. Clean pins on cartridge. Check VTF of tonearm.
3. Check headshell wires and retighten on cartridge pins.
4. Clean turntable RCA plugs, and phono preamp female RCA plugs.
5. Check interconnects from phono preamp to amp (if you have a separate phonostage).
6. Try your second, identical cartridge on faulty playing table. If problem is gone, cartridge is fooked.
 
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