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In Reply to: Marantz 6100 setup question(s) posted by caseyjames on August 03, 2004 at 20:10:50:
Hi,I have a Marantz 6110 which is basically the same turntable with a slightly different base.
The hanging weight is the anti-skate. I was initially confused about where to set it because the manual is confusing. Each notch corrosponds to a .5g increase in anti-skate. To set your anti-skate to 2 grams place the weight on the innermost notch. For 1.5 grams go out one notch, and so on and so on.
The dial on the back of the tonearm is the tracking force adjustment. Before you set the tracking force, you have to balance the arm. to do this, adjust the dial to the poin where the arm balances in midair. Once the arm is balanced, adjust the meter (which is independent of the weight adjustment) to zero. Then set the tracking force to the desired position.
If you still have the 45 rpm adaptor, it serves as a way to adjust overhang -a valuable tool, which my turntable lost many years ago. Put the adaptor on the spindle, and place the stylus as close to the dot on the adaptor as possible. The goal here is to have the tip of the stylus land precisly on that dot. This is done by adjusting the position of the cartridge in the headshell (This is why headshells have slots.
If you dont have the 45rpm adaptor, you will need some sort of protractor to adjust overhang. You can buy one or, like me, you can download one for free here.
It has instructions.http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0900/protractor.htm
As for the other controls on this turntable, there really arent any besides the 33/45 selector which is self explanatory and the cartridge return lever which you pull towards you to stop a record from playing and return the arm to the rest position. This is an auto return table (if it is working properly ;)) so you wont need to use this much. This switch frequently breaks so dont be suprised if it doesnt work on your table. It's a cheap repair though.
One other note. If your 6100 is anything like my 6110, which it is, it is very sensitive to vibration and is likely to "howl" if it is close to a speaker. You will discover this if you put on an album with deep bass at a loud volume. Keep this turntable as far away from your speakers as you can.
My other table was a pioneer pl-4 which did not have this problem. Knock pioneer all you want but you could put that thing on the floor at a dance party and it wouldnt howl or skip a groove.
Hope this helps. Ask me any questions if this was unclear.
BTW unless you really want one I wouldnt bother buying the manual.
Follow Ups:
Thanks for your help. I actually had the anti-skate the opposite way of what you said, with the innermost notch .5 grams. Now that I know it's the opposite, I will not damage my lps.The rest I sort've figured out on my own. However, I was unaware of the sensitivity to vibrations and will take your advice. Fortunately, or I suppose unfortunately, I don't play my music all that loud because of my apartment building.
Any other recommendations to get the most out of the table?
I'm not much of an audiophile so im not into tweaking. The only thing that bothers me is inner groove distortion, which is why i couldn't live with my pioneer and the grado blue cartridge. Though i think the pioneer is overall a better table, the lightweight arm does not seem to go well with the grado cartridge. The Marantz is considerably better but not perfect. I'll probably end up trying the shure m97xe with both the marantz and the pioneer; but i'm quite cheap so...I don't see much reason to spend ridiculous amounts on equipment. I'm almost embarrased to reveal my system around here, but i think it sounds great. To me, as long as theres no mistracking or sibilance vinyl, even on a cheap turntable can sound pretty great. So if it sounds good to you, I would leave everything as is and enjoy the music.
Experimenting with cartridges might be interesting though. Look for carts that go best with medium-mass arms.
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm by no means an audiophile nor do I pretend to be. I just like listening to records. My system is far from awesome, but it works, y'know?I was able to pick up a marantz 225 or something receiver and two older huge kenwood speakers for $4 at my local goodwill, so I can't complain. The TT cost me $50 and a new, cheapish cartridge cost me like $30, I think. I might make the upgrade to the Shure m97xe as well, but for now, I have grad school to pay for.
Anyways, thanks so much for your help; it was much appreciated.
If the marantz you have is a 2250, It is an excellent receiver and is worth more than 100 bucks, check Ebay, you'll see it once in a while... I'm not sure about the speakers but if you go to thrift shops keep an eye out for the vintage speakers (Large and Small Advents, Acoustic Research, KLH, etc.) I got a pair of Large Advents and a Pair of AR 2ax's. Needed to be refoamed but thats easy and pretty cheap.My Marantz tt, Large Advents and Sony cd recorder/player are hooked to a Pioneer SX-980 receiver(1978) and my AR 2ax's go with a Sansui G-7700 and 1986 Technics CD player.
At school I have a Pioneer SX-880 Smaller Advents and Salvation Army special Technics CD player.
I don't find vintage gear. Vintage gear finds me.
I've used Ebay in the past but not any more because I've found that the stuff I need always seems to come my way at a tenth of the price.
Last night I changed the wires that connect the cartridge to the headshell, but didn't bother remembering the which colour goes with what concerning the headshell and now I get sound out of only one channel. When I throw it on mono, I get sound out of both. When I switched the left/right turntable-to-phono cables, the sound jumped to the other speaker.I'm hoping this remedied by aligning the proper colour with the proper pin on the headshell; can you tell me what goes where?
If that doesn't fix it, is the cartridge bad or do I have bigger problems?
Thats no good.
I would only fool around with the headshell wires if i broke one. I never believed in the magic of wires and interconnects... especially on average equipment...Anyway, if you are looking at the headshell straight on, with the cartridge staring at you,the bottom two wires are green on the right and blue on the left. On the top its red on the right and white on the left.
As for what colors go where on the cartridge itself, differnt carts vary but many are color coded or labelled.
Thank you so much for your help once again. I know for a fact that cart isn't the problem b/c after I had posted this question, I tried it on my junker TT and it worked fine, so *hopefully* its just a matter of crossed wired and not something bigger.Do you have IM; I'd like to talk to you about some other music related things.
screenname: DRP2784
email: drp26@cornell.edu
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