Gramophone problems – need help!

[Ksenia]

Hello,
Thanks for all the answers!

Something is very wrong with the angle of that soundbox to the record.

The needle is at about 45 degrees to the record surface. If it were more like 70 degrees things would sound better. Also, the needle point being so far "past" the spindle is all wrong too. Ideally, you should be able to touch the needle point to the center of the spindle shaft. Looks also like the tone arm sits too close to the record, creating a weird angle to the u-tube.

It might be possible to make this work if the back bracket was raised up higher and the angle of the soundbox corrected.

Thank you for pointing out that the angle of the sound box is wrong. It seems that this was the main cause of my problem. After raising up the back bracket (as illustrated in the first photo), the angle of the sound box was corrected and the sound distortion is gone from almost all records.

here some dimensions

Thanks for the dimensions – we followed them when raising up the back bracket.

Here you can listen to the same record being played before and after the angle of the sound box was changed: http://youtu.be/1jnGRw93xAc

[Henry]

What a dramatic transformation---congratulations!