Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem

Posted by steven d (A) on July 18, 2014 at 19:32:40

Today I mounted this loaner from a friend, the Benz Ruby Z. I have it mounted to an Audiomods arm.

The first thing I did was mount it in a neutral position in the headshell (aligned front face and sides). Then set the VTF to 2.0g. After alignment using the MintLP tractor I went to set the anti-skating and this is where things started to get weird:

I could not set the anti-skate so the arm stayed steady on a blank record. Not only could I not steady it, but even with the highest setting of AS, the arm still swung quickly towards the spindle.

After a few records some serious skipping was happening - not just into the next groove but almost an entire song! At this point I rechecked everything and noticed that I didn't lock the counterweight which slid back to give a VTF of 1.3g. After adjustment to 2.2g it was better, but records of known good condition were still causing a jump.

I tried adding a 7g shim to the headshell and recalibrating all parameters and still the distortion/mistracking/jumping persists. At times the distortion is in the right channel, other times it jumps towards the spindle (sometimes one groove over and other times two or more).

I think I've created some groove damage of two vintage records (A Scott Hamilton on Concorde, and a Hawai'ian "Sunday Manoa" on Panini), my limited experience in vinyl just took a lesson.

Any ideas of what is happening? How to correct this?

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Topic - Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - steven d 19:32:40 07/18/14 (23)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - David Shreve 21:47:40 07/20/14 (1)

Audiomods setup - steven d 10:04:41 07/21/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - greg.landesman@yahoo.com 12:59:53 07/20/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - Mel 06:59:17 07/19/14 (1)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - steven d 07:20:11 07/19/14 (0)

Along with the other points already mentioned... - StephenJK 05:27:38 07/19/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - John Elison 20:42:37 07/18/14 (10)

Tried this... - steven d 07:17:31 07/19/14 (8)

RE: Tried this... - John Elison 11:43:34 07/19/14 (0)

RE: Tried this... - bjh 08:47:58 07/19/14 (6)

Audiomods - steven d 09:21:55 07/19/14 (5)

RE: Audiomods - bjh 10:07:02 07/19/14 (4)

Could Loading Be An Issue? - steven d 10:20:59 07/19/14 (3)

Not likely... - teekbrew 06:00:53 07/20/14 (2)

RE: Not likely... - steven d 08:29:02 07/20/14 (1)

Nice picture... - John Elison 13:05:46 07/20/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - steven d 21:22:31 07/18/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - SgreenP@MSN.com 20:37:31 07/18/14 (3)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - steven d 20:53:51 07/18/14 (2)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - SgreenP@MSN.com 04:57:09 07/19/14 (1)

The Dude abides. - StephenJK 05:36:30 07/19/14 (0)

RE: Need Help With Benz Ruby Z Problem - minorrevival 19:56:12 07/18/14 (1)

yessir. - steven d 20:14:51 07/18/14 (0)

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