Hello, some time ago I bought a Palladium NSP-730 turntable and gave it some basic TLC as you do with vintage TTs, and it worked, and I didn't give it much thought since. Recently, I noticed that on some records the inner groove distortion gets really apparent, and my cart adjustment were on point. I looked at the tonearm gimbal, and noticed that the arm is ever so slightly skewed at the pivot point, and it makes the arm not move perfectly horizontally, but ever so slightly upwards as it approaches the middle of a platter, causing the azimuth to go out of alignment the closer it is to the end of a record. How hard a fix this would be? I'm sure I'd need to disassemble the arm, what about bearing adjustments afterwards? Is it at all doable without a test record? Thanks for any input.
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Might be damage to the pivot axle due to being transported with the counterweight still attached to the arm? This sort of precision engineering might not be fixable if there is a bend in the axle, too brittle... I doubt there is any adjustment for this, normally there's just adjustment for bearing play/preload.
@Mark Tillotson i'm sure it's not adjustable, I'm just looking for advice on how to diagnose the thing and then callibrate the bearings when I assemble it back together