Hello! Well as I said, I put a very thin teflon pad at the bottom of the shaft, on top of the existing perforated disc. Not ideal perhaps, but it works!

Hello, Well I can certainly read CR-RWs with my Beogram 3300 which is even older! My CDX can only just do it if I quickly skip to track two!

Hi, I couldn't have put it in a better way! (I'm French) I have a similar experience. This will do nicely, and yes Steve is nice and will sell you a good, not audiophile cable, ie not expensive... but there's no difference anyway! The ebay cable was expensive for what it is, and too long for a phono lead. It may have too high a capacity

In its "natural" environment. Note the Beogram 8000 now sitting unused at the bottom! It has remained silent with the teflon disc. Sorry about the Naks! (for the connoisseurs, a 480Z and a CR-4E)

Hi, In spite of the whiskey it makes sense indeed! But since the thing can't be taken apart, I won't investigate any further. Whatever weight I use, the noise remains. I have just sent an email to Axel about this problem. Cheers!

Hi, I think I've found it... It appears that the cross is slightly in contact with the body can, so a suspension failure is my guess The stylus, however, is good. Normally, the cross should not be in contact with anything, should it? It should therefore be isolated from the body.

Olly, That's fine really! It is more fascinating than anything else actually! I need to get this sorted... I have been following SP cartridges on the bay for some time but the prices they fetch are just silly! As for Beograms, well there are plenty... But no carts, or broken ones!

It only does that with this cartridge. My vinyl is in very good condition (the Mozart plays perfectly and silently on my other decks). The deck's suspension is fine, the Beocenter is on the floor, which is concrete! Yes it does it with every LP I tried, but then even with a sheet of rhodoid or rubbing a nail onto the tip! I re-inspected the innards

scraping.m4a Don't pay attention to the beeps... bad laptop

Thanks. What I know for sure is that the cantilever doesn't foul anything while playing. I can also hear the scraping hollow noise if I stick my ear to the cartridge! The tiniest vinyl imperfections excite the cartridge body. I have inspected the outside under a slide magnifying glass but I can't see anything wrong... I'm going to make a