White Zombie
pfm Member
Ok I recently bought a Pro-ject X1 and Dynavector PS75 MKII from the classifieds and been purchasing some records.
I've got about a dozen records that look absolute mint, that have also been cleaned, yet when I play them they sound absolute shite. Loads of crackling and staticy sounding noise, obviously more prominent in quieter parts of music. Also purchased a new copy of Time Fades Away by Neil Young about 4 weeks ago, sounded perfect when I got it, sounds terrible now.
Couldn't understand why, so today I took them to my mates who has an old Systemdek IIX with an Ortofon 520 MkII and Exposure X amp and played them there and every one sounds perfect, like crystal clear. All the parts that were unlistenable due to crackling, the crackling isn't even there on his system.
So vinyl experts of the forum, please help me out here, think I'm due a nervous breakdown haha
What could possibly be the issue? I was thinking my stylus, however, I have records that play beautifully with no issues at all on my system. Which made me think if my stylus was gubbed surely anything I played on it would sound bad.
I've got about a dozen records that look absolute mint, that have also been cleaned, yet when I play them they sound absolute shite. Loads of crackling and staticy sounding noise, obviously more prominent in quieter parts of music. Also purchased a new copy of Time Fades Away by Neil Young about 4 weeks ago, sounded perfect when I got it, sounds terrible now.
Couldn't understand why, so today I took them to my mates who has an old Systemdek IIX with an Ortofon 520 MkII and Exposure X amp and played them there and every one sounds perfect, like crystal clear. All the parts that were unlistenable due to crackling, the crackling isn't even there on his system.
So vinyl experts of the forum, please help me out here, think I'm due a nervous breakdown haha
What could possibly be the issue? I was thinking my stylus, however, I have records that play beautifully with no issues at all on my system. Which made me think if my stylus was gubbed surely anything I played on it would sound bad.