Thanks to you all for your interest. I have checked the stylus cantilever and it seems fine - flexes and returns as normal. The vinyl was spotless - I checked it out on my other system & the sound is perfect. I have tried other vinyls and there seems to be a general distortion in the sound quality. This distortion gets worse as the arm moves towards

I have a Beogram 6500 as part of a complete Beosystem 6500 I purchased brand new for my wife. It has not been used more than twenty times in its lifetime and not at all in the past ten years! When I decided to use it this week, it sounded fine at first but then the music gradually become distorted as the arm moved over the vinyl. The arm will move the