Well been playing with the 20CL and my 1700. I just cannot get it to sound good. I replaced the RCA plugs, nice to see the wire inside are bright shinny copper! But I am still getting major distortion. Especially on 'S'. Whenever an 'S' is sung..it sounds like ssss-snakes-ssss. Yet there are positives...this cartridge is amazing at reproducing

Well to bring this thread back..... So I got am MMC20CL off ebay for not too much and hooked it up. To be honest, it sounds "okay". I have been using a friend's dual 505 with a new tone arm and the Shure 15V cartridge. After going back and forth many times.. I think the Dual sounds slightly (very slightly) better. There still seems to

So, mediaboyny, has been super helpful in getting my 1700 up and running and sounding good. Like an idiot, I was a little aggresive in cleaning the stylus and bent the cantilever on my cartridge. The cartridge was probably shot any way (I was having other issues with it) but now it really is (though, believe it or not, it still play decently) So, what

So cleaned the rca hookup with a Dremmle. Now there is no more distortion on the highs! I guess sanding off all that corrosion helped. I also used your method for cleaning the stylus. 2 remaining issues: 1. In the above I mention how as soon as the tone arm lifted from the record it pulled back to the right and "went home". Is this normal

So are spade connect cartridge interchangeable with Beo? I have a 1700 with a bad (I think) MMC20EN. Could that be replaced with any of the spade type beo cartridges? Thanks.

Hmmm...tried this, unfortunatly, as soon as the tone arm "floats" it pulls back all the way to the right. So, basically turnned the counterwieght until it would just stay in place (on the record) and set that to 0. There seems to be systematic static on playback and the highs are REALLY distorted. That said, there is the cartridge issue, plus

Thanks for the advice! Will try cleaning it. Looked at the tip under a magnifying glass. Still looks shiny! Though there is tons of crud around it. I will try and clean it. Thanks for the advice on how to. As for tracking.... it is really wierd.. It seems zeroed out, but the force needs to be set at 7-8 to keep on the record. Otherwise the needle just

I just picked up a Beogram 1700 today at a garage sale for $20 US. It works perfectly, but I am afraid it needs a new stylus. There is distortion on the high frequencies and some on the low as well. Also, there is corrosion on the RCA cables and it looks on the stylus as well. So what to do? How can I make sure the stylus is bad? It seem SoundSmith