A skipping needle is almost never the record. Anti-skating, the strobe dots, what the platter and tonearm need to stay working - and a list of the things people do to a turntable that quietly destroy it.

By the end of this course you will be able to

Set anti-skating so the needle stops jumping
Use the strobe dots to confirm the platter speed
Clean and maintain a deck without damaging it
Replace a tonearm, and know when it is beyond saving

Lessons

Needle jumping, and anti-skating

Duration: 6:19
What the strobe dots are telling you

Duration: 3:00
Keeping a turntable in good order

Duration: 20:32
What not to do to a turntable

Duration: 5:24
Replacing a tonearm

Duration: 8:38
Bringing an old deck back

Optional Duration: 3:28

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.