zacharold15 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Hi ,my turntable (vintage dual 1219) was working great for a few weeks and then audio went out in the left channel and eventually went out all together. The problem is not in the receiver or the rca cables so I would guess that it would be the cartridge or stylus. What do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas³ Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 It could be a number of things honestly. It could be the connections in the headshell, it could be the tonearm wires, it could be the cartridge, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacharold15 Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Where would be the place start checking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I take it you have cleaned it? there isn't a big lump of fluff sitting under the stylus is there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacharold15 Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Yes I have cleaned it. I have also cleaned the contacts on the headshell and on the tonearm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 OK, best to get the obvious out of the way first. As Thomas said it could be any number of things. Cartridges themselves don't tend to break unless something happens to them like a high load caused by shorts in the wiring somewhere or a problem with the phono input so the first place i would look is the stylus, is it worn? have a look with a good magnifier, is the contact from the stylus into the cartridge bad? take it out and use a bit of contact cleaner or sometimes just taking it out and putting it back in a couple of times will do it. The other place to look is the connections within the turntable, I'm not sure if the auto function of the 1219 mutes the output but if so the mute might not be cancelling or the 1219 has internal phono connections so these could need a clean. If you have a test meter unplug the cartridge and unplug the phono leads from the phono input on your amplifier and meter each core end to end and between each other, there should be negligible resistance in any core end to end and huge resistance between cores, if any of that is wrong then you need to trace all the way along the path for bad connections or breaks etc. If it is good then the problem is at the cartridge/stylus end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacharold15 Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) Upon further investigation and a picture of the (what i thought i had cleaned very well) stylus, it seems like the stylus is still very dirty and worn, and/or needs to be replaced . What is your opinion? Edited June 16, 2016 by zacharold15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacharold15 Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) https://postimg.org/image/78twrc0dd Image of the needle. Edited June 16, 2016 by zacharold15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenh Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 it does look a little worn but it should still make a noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjorn Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 I had a Dual with a similar issue. The problem was with a terminal inside the case where the tonearm wires connect with the RCA cords. There was grease oozing into it. That could be your problem. Open it up and clean those connections and you should be able to fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pee Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 How did you determine it's not the receiver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zacharold15 Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 On 7/11/2016 at 3:47 PM, El Pee said: How did you determine it's not the receiver? I plugged in and played another turntable on the receiver. I'm now certain that it's the headshell connections on the sled that goes into the headshell. I think I'm going to solder wires directly the headshell and plug the cartridge in there because the sleds are hard to find and when I do find them they are expensive. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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