Marantz DD running a bit slow

[royphil345]

Are you just looking at the back of the pitch pots?

What you hope to find are one or two mini pots on a PC board that fine-tune the pitch pots. They'll look something like the two round parts on the bottom of this PC board. http://72.4.160.82/gibson/media/CK191.jpg

They may just look like thin, round metal disks with a small screwdriver slot in the middle. Be careful, they are delicate. If you find some of these and mess with the adjustment a bit, you should be able to get "up to speed". On a simple, non quartz-locked turntable, there's really not much else they could adjust besides the speed. There's really nothing else that could get messed up by experimenting...

Hopefully your turntable has this adjustment. Not sure if it would, since it sounds like you have a separate pitch control for each speed. I haven't taken apart a turntable like that yet. Most DC turntables with a single pitch control for both speeds will have the PC board trimmers.

Good luck!!! Hope it works out for you... Crossing my fingers...


EDIT: If you bridge the two connectors on the pitch pot that the wires are connected to while the pot is at the fastest setting and the table speeds up further, the pot is bad and replacing it will solve the problem.