I got this old Toshiba Hi-Fi from my late grandfather with a Toshiba SR-B2 Turntable.
It was in a cabinet so the dust cover and hinges were discarded at some point. He'd also replaced all the power plugs with RCA plugs and had some kind of janky power setup going on. I'm not sure what else Gramps did to it.
I had to replace the belt and after it seemed to play OK. However, looking at it the stylus appeared the needle was broken and the shell was dragging on the record. I've found it's probably the wrong type (N44C? / N280?).
There was also a broken red stylus that come with the turntable and that seems to fit the cartridge and head shell correctly.
So I did some research and bought a new one (N62D) which matches the broken red one and it seems to fit properly.
This new stylus though was very quiet initially, I brushed the tip since I read that sometimes they can have a bit of plastic or glue on the end from factory. Now the audio is very crackly and sounds like it's clipping.
Any idea what could be causing this?
I have also tried re-balancing the tone arm and setting the anti skate.
TL;DR replaced stylus and now the audio is clipping / crackly.