I recently received some used Technics from eBay and having owned one before, doing some routine checks and cleaning the turntable to try it out.
After I zeroed out the tonearm, I added more weight to it the needle (Stanton Trackmaster 2). Its recommended tracking weight is 2-5 grams but the weight can only move up to 2! And it sounds terrible at this setting so there's definitely not enough downforce on it (temporarily put coins on the cartridge and the sound improved). I tried zeroing the tonearm again and also again noticed the counterweight seemed too far inside the end the arm when it was balanced.
It seems like the tonearm balance is very off somehow because there's not much more room to turn the weight. Is this something wrong with the bearings or some other need to take it apart to fix the problem?
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