Just got two new VL12’s as part of a full prime setup.
One of the VL12’s is skipping consistently. Now, mind you, this is while just playing records, I’m not scratching or anything like that.
I have two pairs of cartridges: Shure Whitelabel’s, and Ortofon Nightclub MK2’s. I’ve swapped in all 4 cartridges and they all have the same skipping issue. It happens on all the records I’ve tried, but on the other VL12, I haven’t had it skip once.
I’ve set these up as I have with my old Technics, with about 2.5-3g of tracking force. I’ve tried a number of anti-skate settings. As suggested in another thread, I tried playing a blank side of vinyl, and I don’t see the tonearm pulling to one side obviously. When I hold the tonearm in my hand and swing it back and forth over the record, I could swear there is some level of resistance there (or maybe I’m going crazy after trying so many things).
I made a couple of real short youtube videos to demonstrate the problem:
Kind disappointed as the rest of the prime setup is rock solid!
I see your anti-skate is set to zero. Float your tonearm above the platter and adjust your anti-skate, so that there is no side to side movement of the tonearm.
What is the angle currently set to on your Cart? For nightclubs, it needs to be 0 degrees (directly horizontal).
Could be a mis-adjusted tone-arm from the factory (as in tonearm is slightly askew). I’d contact the shop you purchased from for a replacement, if thats the case.
