When playing albums the tone arm on my record player lifts and returns to original position before the album is finished. This same problems means we also can't play singles as the tone arm resists being moved so close to the middle. I don't have a great knowledge of turntables so would be interested to know if this something you thought I could handle myself or whether I should take into a shop?
If you can't even move the tonearm to the correct position physically, some in the mechanism is either bent or possibly the tonearm wires have moved from their original position, causing the arm to hang up.
The anti-skate is set wrong, this stops the arm skatting on to the label in the middle of the record & destroying your stylus tip.
SOURCE: SL-BD22 Stops as you move in the tone arm
I am not particularly familiar with this model but if you have to have a disk on the turntable in order for it to run (a safety for stylus protection perhaps) why not just put on a disk and see? This feature would be a fairly complex one (photosensor perhaps) and I would not expect to see it on an inexpensive piece. Likely as not this has to do with a switch inside probably activated by a cam wheel (used in the raising of the arm at the end and returning the arm to rest) that is not set right. This cam or some link to it may have a problem which need to be addressed. All this I grant is speculation which would become clear if I saw the unit but unfortunately that is not an option. As to whether its a piece of junk, I wouldn't buy it unless I thought I could make it work. Paying any real amount of money to another to fix it makes little sense to me.
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