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Crosley C-10 help

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Tdaut

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I have a crosley C-10 and the motor started making a loud buzzing sound which was audible over the music coming from my speakers. I took it to an audio guy that put some rubber grommets on the screws holding the motor on to the body to isolate it better. The buzzings stopped for the most part but the pulley is now at an angle and i cant adjust the belt to play 45's.

Has anyone else had this issue with this turntable? Should i just scrap it and try to turn it in for a different table all together?

TY in advance!
 
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That's appears to be the model that is made by Pro-Ject. Pro-Jects are known for having hum and motor noise issues. Some people successfully modify them to get rid of the noise, or at least make it tolerable, but you shouldn't need to do that in the first place.

Personally, I would move on to a better turntable instead of trying to polish a turd.
 
beat_truck said:
That's appears to be the model that is made by Pro-Ject. Pro-Jects are known for having hum and motor noise issues. Some people successfully modify them to get rid of the noise, or at least make it tolerable, but you shouldn't need to do that in the first place.

Personally, I would move on to a better turntable instead of trying to polish a turd.
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Thank you for the advice!
 
Welcome to AK Tdaut.
beat_trucks answer was rather gruff and I hope it didn't chase you away but most on here will agree that it is not a very good turntable and not worth dumping money into.
I would look on Craigs List and Facebook Market place for an older Japanese DD table. You can always make a short list and ask on here for opinions. It takes a lot of money to better a mid grade vintage Japanese DD turntable.

BillWojo
 
And there are a lot of reasonable to incredible vintage belt drive turntables as well (and heaps of vintage cheap+nasty to be avoided belt drive turntables as well).
If you ditch the turntable, keep the ortofon om5 cartridge and styli, and mount it in another headshell that suits your new turntable, it will be useful to swap to play any damaged records you may obtain, without concern of damaging your "good" styli.
 
BillWojo said:
Welcome to AK Tdaut.
beat_trucks answer was rather gruff and I hope it didn't chase you away but most on here will agree that it is not a very good turntable and not worth dumping money into.
I would look on Craigs List and Facebook Market place for an older Japanese DD table. You can always make a short list and ask on here for opinions. It takes a lot of money to better a mid grade vintage Japanese DD turntable.

BillWojo
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Thank you for the advice and help. My thoughts are to bring it back to the shop that repaired it and see if they wont give me $50 for it, then buy a turntable there based on budget.
(probably willing to spend $500 unless that wont get me as much of an upgrade as i'm hoping)

Is it smarter to come up with a brand / model of turntable and buy that online if it isnt available in this guys little shop?
 
AudioFeline said:
And there are a lot of reasonable to incredible vintage belt drive turntables as well (and heaps of vintage cheap+nasty to be avoided belt drive turntables as well).
If you ditch the turntable, keep the ortofon om5 cartridge and styli, and mount it in another headshell that suits your new turntable, it will be useful to swap to play any damaged records you may obtain, without concern of damaging your "good" styli.
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This is great advice! thank you v much
 
$500 at a shop won't get you much, but should get something quite good on the secondhand market.
In terms of brands, the better quality Technics are always well-regarded (the hifi range, not their cheap light turntables that were made for the consumer market).
 
Some of the new brands maybe right for you at half your budget U-Turn and Fluance come to mind. Picked up my daughter a Fluance RT82. It was not embarrassed by my modded AR XA in the same system. And for less than $290 to my door :dunno:.
 
Tdaut said:
Thank you for the advice and help. My thoughts are to bring it back to the shop that repaired it and see if they wont give me $50 for it, then buy a turntable there based on budget.
(probably willing to spend $500 unless that wont get me as much of an upgrade as i'm hoping)

Is it smarter to come up with a brand / model of turntable and buy that online if it isnt available in this guys little shop?
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Based on your first experience with this shop,
I would get a refund, and go somewhere else.
 
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