Rob wrote:
On 13/01/2010 19:12, Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:06:31 +0000,
(D.M. Procida) wrote:

Laurence wrote:

I have noticed this glassiness before, but now I want to do something
about it.

Try to pin down whether it IS happening nearer the centre of the disc.

Very difficult to tell. It becomes more irritating, and one notices it
more after a while, and records also typically get louder towards the
end of a side.

If I recorded it, would that help an expert identify the possible cause?


Please do. Save it as wav, not mp3 though.

Could be cartridge alignment (don't tell me a Linn owner isn't
equipped to adjust this? :-)

I assumed that the hi-fi shop I bought it from wold have set it up
correctly, and that it won't have moved around very much since then.


That is a big assumption. Last time I set up my cartridge and arm it
took more than 2 hours. I really can't see any shop taking that sort
of time, care or trouble.


I wouldn't have thought it'd take a reasonably seasoned bod more than 10
minutes to fit and align a cartridge in one of those. Bias, tracking and
alignment aside, everything is fixed.



The biggest problem is yet again here we have someone with not much idea
who has been suckered into buying a 'famous name' instead of a better
option deck that is easy to live with, like a Technics - where you can
effect a headshell swap in 20 seconds if you bustle....