r/turntables

I got this record player as a gift. i bought a few vinyls already but the sound is literally extremely low on this i’m not even sure im doing it right. but im assuming i need speakers? i’m thinking about buying edifier. but if anyone has this record player i think its a Retrolife belt-drive Bluetooth turntable says chatgpt.

ive watched a couple reviews and sound checks and i personally think it sounds amazing, and its like one of the only ones that fit in my budget.

Been revisiting my S&M vinyl rip lately and figured I’d share it here in case anyone wants to hear the full playback quality. Full vinyl rip on comments. Cheers!

I have today decided that the Golding Lenco GL69 which I picked up late last year deserves better than being stored. To be honest the original plan was to have it in my living room , but could not source a suitable table/stand for the deck and the amp AND picked up a gorgeous National Panasonic SG-2500L for free last month and after some basic service and a bulb install is doing great service in the living room .

So back to then point , I knew the GL69 was fully working when put away and now I have set it up next to my Pioneer PL320 it sounds wonderful through my Mitsubishi DA R210L receiver.

So the question is , given that I like to listen to an album all the way through how do people run more than one turntable ? Do you alternate with whatever you fancy, do you think certain records are more suitable for different decks you own?

Hello,

How are you guys cleaning these?

I know the best thing to do would be replace but would rather just clean. Right channel has a hum sometimes but if I wiggle the RCA it goes away. Ive tried a little bit of DeOxit but didnt really do much.

Thanks in advance!

Recently bought at lp120x and i have this issue when the audio is loud on speakers and the needle is on vinyl the turntable starts to make these loud bass noises, these noises are most noticable since the drop of needle on vinyl and when the audio finishes, it can also be heard randomly while the record is playing. any advice would be helpful. First i’ve connected rca to rca and then tried to fix it by grounding, the speakers dont have any grounding so i unscrewed a screw from the back of the speakers and put it there.

Hi. It’s the girl who found a Technics sl-d3 at the thrift store for 14.99

So… I’m trying to replace the stylus and notice the cartdrige has this massive black thing under it. The styles was place under the black thing.

Just been searching and can’t seem to find anything looking like that. It looks like a AT3600L /
AT91 / AT91R.

But doesn’t have that black thing on it.

I just picked up this weird, apparently rare cartridge for cheap. It's an Acutex M207IIE (as marked, see photos)
When I look up this model, it mostly comes up with a cart design that is completely different than what I have. Something with a pointed stylus end that resembles something from Ortofon or the like. Apparently Acutex made two carts with the same name.

But focusing on the cart that I DO have, I've been able to decipher that there are no more NOS examples of their stylus, but I've also found that a few different people have mentioned other styli that may fit it since it seems to be a copy of a popular generic cartridge design from the early to mid 80's.

I can tell you that the diamond shaped hole for the stylus is smaller than the hole for a Shure, Empire, etc. So a Shure stylus will not fit.

I was able to find a Facebook post with a few different options, but both of the options look very different from each other.

facebook post
(suggests that the Excel S700XR, or Excel ES-70 styli will fit)

S700XR stylus on LP Gear (looks like it may fit, if the diamond-shaped shank is the correct size)

ES70 stylus on My Needle Store (very different shape)

when I research the Excel S700XR, I see that the cartridge that it's made for is the Excel QD700
Here is a reddit post that suggests the Sumiko Oyster is the same cartridge as the excel, So is the Acutex also the same?

So my question is, is any of this information accurate?
The facebook post doesn't show the cart with any actual stylus attached, so I'm wary.

The only example of what I think the original stylus is supposed to look like is the eBay image I added to the photos here, but obviously it's only from the front angle. Going by that photo, It appears that the Oyster is the most similar stylus design.

Does anyone have the same cart, or a similar cart, and can you tell me if any of these things work?

To be clear, I'm not expecting to find an original stylus for this cart, I'm just trying to find something that will fit it, since it's apparently a generic copy of a few other cartridges available at the time.

Went on vacation and my new turntable stayed at home. Came back home, tried to play a song and heard the worst sound ever. Found my needle like this. Husband denies touching it. I have to replace it, right? 🥲

I really like this churntable. Not quite like my Marantz TT-15S1, but it's altogether pretty solid. I forwent the per-instructions (typical) method for setup and used my digital tracking gauge and anti-skate record to get things like I'd rather them be. The thick and chunky butcher board element of this deck really does it for me. Probably was the main appeal about it to begin with.

Dual CS 429

Turntables are FUN. 🤘🏻

Ordered a second Tube Phonopreamp to see if its good or better that my Douk T3plus.

Well... its not.. 😆

Its humming, it sounds thin and flat. Never thougt that it can be that bad in 2026.

However, will give it 100 hours to burn in and test again. But i think its a bad thing.

Meanwhile im waiting for some matched pairs of NOS sovjet 6ZH1P-EV with OTK7 and OTK9 sorting. They are the replacement for the 6A2 / 5654 tubes in my T3plus and the U10 Headphone-amp.

They would fit for the shitty Phonopre too, but i think that he have basically issues in circuitlayout.

I have captions in the video but just to clarify, the audio is from 80s Comedown Machine that I just opened and used for the first time, when I flipped it over to play side 2 I hit off the table pretty hard and the arm flew off the record

I can't tell if anything changed about the needle otherwise so I'm unsure if the photos are of any help.

I put the audio and the photos together so everything is in one place

After the record finished I put on Station to Station and the audio seemed fine, just paranoid and looking for someones take on this

The turntable is also level, at least based on a bubble level phone app based on my phones gyroscope but I plan on getting/finding a proper bubble meter to double check, then again this didn't effect the second record.

Lastly it could be the needle is too low or too high but once again unsure. Any help is appreciated

Copyrighted Audio is used briefly to demonstrate the issue but should lie under fair use