But even with it set as low as it can go, the speed is too fast, with both 33.3 and 45 rpm settings. I have checked underneath to make sure the minor speed control adjustment is able to travel as far as it physically can, and it is functioning as designed.
I was about ready to start the tweaking and new plinth building process, but I did not expect to encounter problems with the speed after moving the voltage jumpers (fuses) to their correct positions. It just goes over the original 50Hz strobe donut sticker already on the underside of the platter. This paper donut sticker originally came with the unit, and was given to me by the original owner when he gave me the turntable. The only change I have made is to attach the 60Hz strobe pattern donut to the underside of the platter. With one neglible exception, everything is still original on this unit, including the magnificent plastic-&-cardboard plinth. Everything worked fine in England where I acquired it, but now that I have finally gotten around to unpacking it and coverting it for North American use, it is playing too fast. The Synchro-Lab motor in inscribed with the usual international blessings for 120 V/60Hz and 240V/50Hz, and the power cord inputs have little copper wire jumpers (what used to pass for a fuse in Britain) with guidance diagrams - hence the International designation. It's possible to fit a very fine Jico stylus for an ancient 60's style 'budget' Shure M-75 cartridge body (the type with the pressed metal bracket to mount it), and make it sound a very fine cartridge indeed.My Garrard Zero-100 International idler wheel turntable won't slow down to proper speed. The differences in sound quality usually stem from modern replacement stylus replacements for them - if the stylus isn't as well made or polished or if the cantilever is too heavy/light, or the magnet isn't as strong. It is possible for a failure in the windings, but it is rare, and 30 or 40 year old cartridges will sound no different now, to how they did back their early years.
That cartridge body only houses the windings that the magnet reacts with and generates current. The majority of moving-magnet cartridges all have the magnets attached to the end of the cantilever (stylus assembly) in some way.
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