Well, I finally switched the cartridge in my ProJect 1 Xpression III to a Shure M91 with PE stylus.

Aligned, vtf set, stylus down.....


Sounds GREAT! :banana:

On one channel.:scratch2::scratch2: The left channel is complete ground hum. The right channel sounds amazing! FAR more alive and palpable on Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park.


So, any ideas?

Well, I finally switched the cartridge in my ProJect 1 Xpression III to a Shure M91 with PE stylus.

Aligned, vtf set, stylus down.....


Sounds GREAT! :banana:

On one channel.:scratch2::scratch2: The left channel is complete ground hum. The right channel sounds amazing! FAR more alive and palpable on Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park.


So, any ideas?

Got to be one of the cart clips I would think ? fool with the head shell wires and might fix it ? But don't listen to me , unless someone else agrees with me that is . those little clips are so very small and easy to bust , trust me on that !
good luck

OK....now I feel like a stupid idiot.

The one wire which caused all of the trouble the LAST time I did this has pulled free of the clip yet again. The white one.

It's looking more and more like this arm will need a re-wire sometime very soon, as my soldering skills a meager and I shorten the lead every time I try to solder it.

ARjohn, I busted this same one the last time I tried this stunt...

Hey don't feel bad , I busted about 5 headshell wires this past weekend and my shure V15 also !! I am ordering new 3 or 4 sets of headshells wires this week . Mine are from the 70's and 80's so I seem to bust them easy or it may be my lack of any feakin' skill at this stuff :sigh:

Hey don't feel bad , I busted about 5 headshell wires this past weekend and my shure V15 also !! I am ordering new 3 or 4 sets of headshells wires this week . Mine are from the 70's and 80's so I seem to bust them easy or it may be my lack of any feakin' skill at this stuff :sigh:

Those get brittle.

Mine are breand new. And I cannot just get new sets, as the wires are attached all the way down the arm. so i am kinda double screwed......

I'll re-solder the lead in the morning and see what happens.

Got it re-soldered.

Looks like the inputs on my receiver are dead...:tears:

And it looks like the whole side of the cartridge is dead.....

I get no output from the cartridge on the left side no matter what phono preamp I use.

Check the wires again. to bad you can't try the cartridge in another headshell

Check the wires again. to bad you can't try the cartridge in another headshell

Yeah.

I think that I know what I did...

I forgot to take the cartridge clip off of the cartridge befroe soldering the wire back onto it....

I probably fried the coils on the cart :tears::tears::tears:

What cartridge did the Shure replace?

What cartridge did the Shure replace?

Sumiko Oyster.

I am silently cursing myself for being stupid..I'll try the M93 body that I have tomorrow. That will give me a known good body to use, and then I'll troubleshoot from there...

I put my DMM across the top left and bottom left pin (when looking from behiend at the cart), and it was intermittent, but I got anywhere from 109 to 186 ohms...