Pro-ject Genie not sounding right

[Amar21]

I have a MK1 Pro-ject Genie. Not played vinyl for a while, but when i played it yesterday, it sounded heavy, with too much base and not enough treble. I tried changing the settings on the pre-amp and stil no change. Tried another record slight change but nothing signifcant. Now, i have never set the force tracking gauge since removing from the box, brand new 5 years ago, could this be the problem or do i need to upgrade the audio interconnects (QED i believe).

Turntable is connected to a Rotel 850c pre-amp and mono blocked using a pair of Rotel 850b power amps to run my Tannoy Definitions. I have a MArantz cd6004 which sounds absolutely beautiful and want the turntable to sound as good or thereabouts.

 

[denom]

Does your TT have VTA settings? Hey just a noob question coz am not a TT expert, but it could be something to do with incorrect VTA setting, my gut feel

 

[Amar21]

Hi Denom,

Mine only has the tonearm with the counter weight attached.

 

[denom]

Pls check the cart specified weight & adjust the weight settings on the tonearm weight attached. Then listen & see if things improve.

 

[Amar21]

will do, keep u informed

 

[Record Player]

You need to rebalance the tone arm.

Reference:

https://kb.wisc.edu/wsum/page.php?id=20270

Cheers...

 

[Amar21]

Cheers

thanks a lot