Whats wrong

Hmm. Most likely scenario is a warm up issue, everything can sound sluggish at first. I doubt it's your turntable at fault, especially since it's new.

"Turntable seems like it playing slow for the first 10-15 minutes of play, after that all is fine."

"Yes Zd452 they do sound considerably better after 30 minutes of warm up, but turntable still needs additional time to perform at its best."

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Is it 10-15 minutes after the 30 minute warm up of your other components?

Zd542 after the intial warm up of the entire system around 30 minutes, I start to play my turntable and it requires another 10 - 15 minutes before it sounds right. Never had a problem in the past with the turntable requiring more time. it always sounded right immediately. I'm out of town during the week so this weekend I'll be able to put the belts on and properly lube the table, I feel somewhat confident this will solve the problem. All tubes were replaced about 200 hours ago and all tube equipment was checked out, at that time, by Mitch Singerman an excellent tech in my area. I also checked the speed of the turntable and all is right. What do you think?

Dear Needle, In your initiating post, you said that the system "sounds like" the tt is playing "slow". At that point, PBN and others offered a possible fix for that problem with your particular tt. But in this last post, you say that you checked the speed of the tt, and "all is right". If indeed you checked the speed with a reliable strobe device or other during this warm-up period and could detect no problem, then perhaps you should describe in more detail what you are hearing. Obviously your perception of the music as being slow does not tally with your data on tt speed. Bad tubes will not do this, either.

If the system sounds sluggish and the TT is spinning at the proper speed, warm up is the most likely cause. Its easy to miss diag something like that. I used to have a McCormack DNA 125, and when I first turned it on, the bass sounded like it was having trouble keeping up the the rest of the system. After some time, it just went away and everything sounded normal. It seems like everything I've had from Pass takes a while to warm up. ARC, not so much, and BAT is probably somewhere in the middle.