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"Hashy"

...was the exact word I used to describe the sound of my Signet cart (before I replaced the stylus this past week)- clearly mistracking.

It looked quite good to the naked eye but it subsequently turned out that the cantilever had been bent, then bent back by some previous owner. It was "close enuf" to play, but sounded awful and I'm sure it did some damage to the LP I was using to audition.

I discovered the damage by ever-do-gently pressing the cantilever tip with my finger-- it split and turned 90 degrees! I assumed I had wrecked it but, looking in my crappy microscope, saw the tube had been severely indented just below the break.

The hashy, scraping sound must have come from the diamond being badly out of whack relative to the cartridge body, resulting in a very bad net alignment. This may have no bearing on your issues but something like it is a possibility. Good luck, Steve.


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