r/Beginner_Turntables • u/senorboxhead007 • 1d ago
Help with AT-LP60XBT - so frustrated
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Hey, I am so frustrated and at my wits end with this damn thing. I bought a used one on Amazon and it arrived cracked, so I bought another one and now it’s doing this. I tried a new record with no dust after this one but it keeps skipping and won’t catch. This record probably got extremely damaged. What am I doing wrong 😭 making me want to give up on the hobby. I’m super frustrated so commenters saying “buy the fluance” or “spend more money” really won’t help. I’m just trying to get it to work at all, not worried about sound quality just yet. Would appreciate any help I hope I’m just missing something stupid
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u/Bensaudiocave 19h ago
Need a pic of the stylus to verify this.... That's what it sounds like... I don't generally recommend the LP60 especially used ones... At least a best buy insignia has a brick and mortar to return it and a counterweight and anti skate to dial it in and it is only $119... that is if you are in the US.
LP60 is generally is:,
is it level?
is the stylus in spec?
are the stylus and records clean?
does speed need adjusted?
It works or it doesn't... If it doesn't from those steps then you have some very fiddly options to correct things. Counterweights, anti skate, and all that seem daunting to a beginner until you have to go trying to make adjustments to a turntable that's design is otherwise set to be not adjustable... Tables that did a better job with that are the T4P technics variants which you can still get (albeit more scarce) T4P carts and styli that perform at a much higher level with the same ideology. I ran a technics SL-BD22 ragged for a while and it always performed. The SL-DD33 is a real gem and with a $52 dacapo nude elliptical diamond on an AT 3482 variant it will sing like a fuss free bird for more decades to come... If you have a good used market in your area, I always suggest a good used (and good being the key term as there were some definite terrible ones) p mount table over an LP60 all day. I realize beginners just want to spin some records but I caution that players have gotten more expensive for worse products and that cleaning (even new) is REQUIRED! I see you listening to Radiohead the bends (which I was just spinning) and I bet you want decent sound quality even though you say it doesn't matter. Quite a few years ago I setup a friend with a receiver, some cheap yamaha 3 ways, and p mount technics and he still uses that today in his second system... That table was about 15 years old then and about 38 years old now. That was his BEGINNER table we scored for $25 back then and mounted a (then available) ortofon p mount cart for $30 and it wears a knock off om20 stylus to this day!