If it plays for a few minutes it is not the bearings, remove the wire from its connection and see if it tracks the record. If so the wire is either too twisted or not twisted enough. Did you buy this from Music Direct?? If so they will back you up completely. They are the only retailer with Travelers, we stopped making them a year ago.
VPI Traveler skipping - no anti skate
Hi everyone,
Back again with another analog question. For Xmas I bought myself a VPI Traveler, and I've been working on setting it up today. It sounds absolutely fantastic...for about half a song, and then it starts skipping. The tonearm has a tendency to pull towards the rim of the record pretty significantly. There is no anti-skating adjustment on this table. VPI only recommends applying a slightly higher VTF (about .1 gram). They also suggest a slight twist of the tonearm wire to apply slight pressure to the tonearm.
Well, I have tried both a Grado Sonata and a Denon DL-110, and in neither case can I get through a song without the record skipping as the tonearm pulls back towards the outer rim of the record. I have raised the VTF, fiddled with the tonearm height, checked the leveling of the table, used 180 gram and standard records. In all cases it skips repeatedly.
I found one other discussion of this problem on Steve Hoffman's forum, but there was never a resolution posted. Any thoughts on what I might do?
Thanks, Scott
Back again with another analog question. For Xmas I bought myself a VPI Traveler, and I've been working on setting it up today. It sounds absolutely fantastic...for about half a song, and then it starts skipping. The tonearm has a tendency to pull towards the rim of the record pretty significantly. There is no anti-skating adjustment on this table. VPI only recommends applying a slightly higher VTF (about .1 gram). They also suggest a slight twist of the tonearm wire to apply slight pressure to the tonearm.
Well, I have tried both a Grado Sonata and a Denon DL-110, and in neither case can I get through a song without the record skipping as the tonearm pulls back towards the outer rim of the record. I have raised the VTF, fiddled with the tonearm height, checked the leveling of the table, used 180 gram and standard records. In all cases it skips repeatedly.
I found one other discussion of this problem on Steve Hoffman's forum, but there was never a resolution posted. Any thoughts on what I might do?
Thanks, Scott
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