Second favourite son Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 That feeling when your replacement vinyl is skipping just as badly as the original so fucking angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexwetherell Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 On 11/17/2016 at 6:33 PM, Second favourite son said: That feeling when your replacement vinyl is skipping just as badly as the original so fucking angry To me that would suggest its your record player, not the vinyl. Sounds stupid, but try putting a coin on top of the arm by the needle... it should weigh the needle down a bit more and prevent skipping. Works for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Second favourite son Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 57 minutes ago, alexwetherell said: To me that would suggest its your record player, not the vinyl. Sounds stupid, but try putting a coin on top of the arm by the needle... it should weigh the needle down a bit more and prevent skipping. Works for me It plays everything else fine though. I tried the coin on the arm and if anything it made the problem worse. Hopefully I can get the record to my parent's house at the weekend and try it on one of their record players. I'll double check before I write my strongly worded letter to Warner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperXCsabre495 Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 11 hours ago, alexwetherell said: To me that would suggest its your record player, not the vinyl. Sounds stupid, but try putting a coin on top of the arm by the needle... it should weigh the needle down a bit more and prevent skipping. Works for me I always cringe when people say to put a coin on the needle. Please nobody should ever do this as it could potentially damage the needle and make the record even worse than it already it. Vinyl is a very sensitive format and adding anymore weight to the needle is a very very bad idea all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proud_ginge Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 My replacement skips on Somewhere Now, but the rest of the album is perfect. The first one was way worse, still disappointed that there were so many production issues with them though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rage&love21 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 On October 7, 2016 at 11:14 PM, -Bruce said: Mine skips as well. Ditto. I aksed for a second copy from Warner Canada because I thought it was a defect, but the replacement they sent me skips as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin_of_Suburbia Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 I'll have to give mine a thorough clean based on what you guys are saying. Both my red vinyl and the black one (which I went out and bought because of the red one skipping) jump around on Somewhere Now. My turntable is fine with everything else. Annoying. Hopefully an angrily forceful clean will dislodge anything gumming up the record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blync Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Same problem here. My thinking is that somehow the master record got through QC with the fault :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Yep mine skips too on somewhere Now and Bang Bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runnerbeany Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Got my vinyl from a shop today. Plenty of crackles and pops on somewhere now with an irritating skip at the start. Is there anything I can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted May 8, 2017 Share Posted May 8, 2017 Any solutions to this whole thing? I would still love to buy the vinyl, I just obviously don't want to buy something that has issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus of Seneca Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 I don't know about the rest of you, but I still stand by the statement that adding weight to the tonearm can alleviate the problem. Whether by a weight adjustment, or just by sticking coins on top of the cartridge head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus of Seneca Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 4 hours ago, crock6000 said: You are wrong, with all due respect. In reality, there is a "safe way" to add weight to the tone arm to achieve the exact thing you are doing here. If you don't balance the back right it will put too much weight on the front which you will almost definitely do if you do it the unorganized way of just throwing weight to the cartridge. Esentially, if you are adding weight to the front of the tonarm, you should be doing it through the back weight and if that isn't enough than the record is bad and you shouldn't force the stylus down and ruin your stylus and other records for one record. Take it from someone who has been playing vinyl since the late 80s and I still rock a reel to reel. You are probably correct, though you could observe this experiment which basically shows that either using coins-on-head or cheap record players can'y actually destroy your records. The tracking weight does not appear to be capable of damage until there is so much weight that the cartridge drags on the vinyl surface. Basically my point was that coins - while not ideal - do work in a pinch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPc5frU8IQQ&t=1s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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