Fluance RT81 needle skip/kick.
Hopefully the video captures it. You can watch the needle track the groove but the tonearm doesn’t move, so the needle jumps back.
Before anybody says it - the cueing lever is not making contact with the tonearm.
This is at 2g on the needle, it does lessen or go away if I crank the weight. At 4.5g it basically doesn’t happen.
Antiskate doesn’t seem to make an appreciable difference.
I think I remember seeing these have issues with the tonearm pivot. Any ideas how to fix?