"Serge Auckland"
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Les Hemmings wrote:
Further to the "getting back into vinyl" saga....

Now have it sounding great.... but it's playing too
fast. Not by much, just enough to make things sound a
tad hurried with accompanying pitch shift. What on earth
could make it play fast? It's not had a new belt for years, it's been
stored
unused for 7 years. Could this be the problem? It's the
last thing I can do myself I think without calling in
outside help. If I can find a belt that is! Any other ideas chaps?

Have you put a strobe disc on it, and measured just how
fast it is going? You can download a strobe disc from
http://www.extremephono.com/ftp/50Hz.PDF


I note that Les completely skipped over this highly relevant and helpful
suggestion.