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The cartridge rear usually has markings on it for ground, and right and left channels. Use a continuity meter to identify the wires and then connect to appropriate pins on cartridge. They may be color coded with red for right, and black for ground and another color for the other channel.

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The Crosley website! They should have a list of part suppliers or will put you in touch with one.

First feel with your finger at the tip of the stylus. It should be sharp. If it's not report it back to the place where you bought it. If it's sharp, then the weight on the end of the arm might have moved, meaning there is no pressure to the stylus. You can look up what it says in the manual about stylus pressure. The other way is to test and adjust. If the weight has numbers on it set it about the middle of the numbers. Then try a record, if it skates, stop and increase the weight by moving to a higher number, not much, then test the record again. You keep doing this till the stylus stays in the groove. However don't increase it that much so it rumbles when in the groove. If that happens reduce the weight slightly and test. I find it best to test with headphones on.

I had this same problem with my Crosley 704 and it bamboozled me to no end.

After digging around I dug up the manual online (I bought mine used so I didn't have one to consult). It turns out the record stops when it gets to the end, and to get it spinning again you have to lift up the tone arm and move it right (past the holding latch) until it clicks, and voila, it starts spinning again, ready for a new record.

You'd think that they coulda made it more obvious :(

Stylus will only fit into certain cartridges. You have two options here. You can look up the cartridge number and make on your Detrola. It should be on the cartridge somewhere. Then search for the stylus. Or you can remove the Detrola cartridge and fit a new cartridge and stylus. As long as the cartridge will fit into the arm of your deck, plus it's the right type - ie: magnetic if the old cartridge was magnetic! Or ceramic - again if the old cartridge was... Then you can use any make or model cartridge you want. As the quality of the sound can be improved - albeit paying more money for it - by having a good quality cartridge and stylus, it might be best in the long run to change the cartridge.

There are 3 possibilities. 1 The Cartridge is faulty. 2 The wrong type of cartridge is fitted. 3 The pre-amp inside your unit has failed. This would not affect any of the other functions if the deck uses a Magnetic Cartridge. The first is obvious for the solution. The second is more tricky. For example if a Magnetic cartridge is fitted and the deck hasn't been built for one, the sound would be there but very low, as there is no internal pre-amp fitted. The solution there would be to replace the cartridge with a ceramic type or one that doesn't need a pre-amp. To the third solution. If the internal pre-amp for the Magnetic cartridge has failed this would need a service engineer to do it, unless you have the knowledge yourself to do the job. It's likely that it will be an IC that does the entire job. It would have to be identified and replaced. As I say the failure of the IC would not effect any other part of the system, because only the record deck goes into it.

Could be the capacitors that filter the final D.C voltage in the power apadter . If the capacitors fail the D.C voltage would have 50 or 60 hertz hum on it. If a diode has failed it could also cause a more severe pulsing of DC voltage. A oscilloscope would show up if the DC is being distorted but I do not know where you would get access to one. A repair shop maybe ?

You have some bad capacitors inside. You can visually identify a bad one if the top isn't flat.

If other CDs work OK then the new one is defective or formatted wrong. Since it's a new release, take it back and exchange it.

The noise is that produced by the working circuits of the item in question. If this is too high the signal (what you want to listen too) will become overwhelmed by noise (generally in the form of hiss). Therefore the higher the signal and the lower the noise the better. This is expressed in a ratio between the two.

It could be that the needle is worn. Also make sure that dust and dirt have not accumulated on the needle. It could be a bad ground. You didn't really describe what "sound awful" means. The phono section of the amplifier is much more sensitive than the amplifier section for the CD or radio because it is using much less input signal.

Absolutely or the album is scratched

Better double check that model number. I can't find it anywhere. If it's a recent "retro", it's just junk. Generally, old radios vary widely in value depending on their year of manufacture, condition, styling, features, and rarity. Crosleys didn't tend to have much going for them other than cheap but there were some exceptions.

Normal the high input voltage should influence the output voltage. The120V AC to 9V DC will be blown, but with a bit of luck, your Crosley cruiser will be ok. Only if the power convertor is poorly made, the high voltage could have gone through the convertor and then it damaged everything in the cruiser. Try a new 9V power supply and see what it does.

Hi Quite often this can be due to the volume control rather than the speakers. What sort of noises due you get if you rotate the volume? Do the noises change and is there a particular setting of the control where the noises go away? If so this indicates the volume control. If not it may be the speakers. Hope this is helpful, if so would you please register that with Fixya Cheers