new stanton i track 2 rs carts

[romelpotter]

new stanton i track 2 rs carts


I just got some new ones, but they keep skipping and one of them is distorting the sound. is this normal or should i be thinking of sending them back to the shop.

i have pro 150 decks that are atmittadly 9 yrs old but should this matter, and i have been altering the counter balance on the tone arem and i think the anti skip on my deck is just there to look at ( its not connected to 'out) but they still skip and sound fuzzy. do they get any better ?can anyone help.

[EmotionComplex]

ive not seen a pair of i-track 2's before but ive got the now discontinued i-track 1 carts and theyve been good, good tracking and pretty good sound, not incredible but an improvement on my old sk 2's i used to use

i remeber them taking a week or so to wear in nicely though, there was a bit of fuzz from them when i first got them and when the needle was taken from the record another staticy noise would appear for 2-3 seconds but it disappeard once theyve been used a little

[romelpotter]

are these carts the best for techno ?

[EmotionComplex]

yours is newer than mine so i dont know but id say there a good all rounder really, decent freq response and good tracking (or at least they should be)

[romelpotter]

yea thats what i thaught, dispite the R.S. standing for Roger Sanchez :oops:

[Andy__C]

What shaped tone-arm is on the decks mate??


I'm pretty sure the RS carts have eliptical styli.....which can sound bollocks on straight arm decks sometimes as due to the angle the needle glides through the groove.............



but like EmotionComplex says....they prob just need wearing in, (as ur tt's prob an S-shaped arm)

[romelpotter]

yea its s-shapped.

[duncandisorderly]

are these carts the best for techno ?

i use trackmaster 2 sk's and they rock my box but ortofon have just released the elektro carts which are supposedly designed for techno and hard house alike and are available for 65 each or 140 for a pair bizarrely enough.

we sell em at' massive records www.massiverecords.com

[romelpotter]

cheers guys, they are starting to settle down now, and sound a lot punchier, but some records are unusable because they still skip. :doh: