Okay, so the saga continues ;)
After having taken most of the superficial parts of the player apart, along with cleaning and realigning them, I have noticed a pretty distinguishable improvement in aesthetics but also in playback quality. The cartridge is now a old MMC 20CL, refurbished with Shibata on Aluminium. Once I lower the base and up the treble on the 3200 I am pretty much happy with the sound... The only problem I still am yet to figure out is why the sound only comes out mono....
1. tapping the plugs on the female DIN- RCA adapter produces sounds both left and right...
2. yesterday I decided to risk it and tapped the first connector inside the record player that the DIN cable connects to... When I click the white cables' connector the left speaker picks it up.. When I click the brown cables' connector the right speaker picks it up....
- this leads me to the conclusion that the problem lies proximally, somewhere between cartridge (newly refurbished by Axel) and the first connector I was just tapping the leads on...
Anyone have any tips on how to further narrow it down? Could the connector for the cartridge be defective? Could there be a problem between cartridge-connector and DIN-Cable connector??? and if so, any ways to strengthen my diagnosis?
anyone have a gut feeling on what it could be?
Since I started the post I've added two more BL 3 to my system, and I'm really looking forward to hearing how it sounds when all 4 fire, and not just half of the track....
thanks in advance for the tipps!
james
