Classic Hifi Care

I have been playing Patsy Cline records on the old Imperial this morning. I noticed something I hadn't before and I wanted to ask you changer gurus for your input.....

There is little in common between a Collaro changer and a Voice Of Music record changer. Their commonality would be they both run off electricity and they will each manage a stack of phonograph records and send a signal to an amplifier so it can be processed into audible sound. The VM is clunky, bulletproof and ultra-dependable. The Collaro is silent, smooth, formal, the Packard straight 8 of record changers. Mine has a quirk that I need to ask about. When the tone arm cycles at the end of the record, the mute switch kills the audio with a little pop. The tone arm touches ever so gently the next record, it drops, the tone arm sets on the record, I hear another little pop then audio. Is the little pop normal, and its personality, or is there a problem I need to address?

What year/model of the changer ?

On the early 1960's Micromatics onward, there is a ceramic
cap on the switch ; I believe to arrest the pops.

Otherwise, w/o a cap there, I think the pop is normal.

I think we determined that the changer is a Collaro Custom, circa 1960.

Mine does the same thing, and my RCA Home Theater and a VM console I have has a mute during cycling and they both pop to. I think it is a normal thing, at least with consoles.

Bill

Thank you both for your input. You know me and changers. I didn't want to burn the house down with a short or something.

Make sure you have a good ground for the changer. There is a possibility that one of your grounds has some resistance in it causing any static buildup to discharge thru the amp.

some changers use a by pass cap to bleed off the static pop , just as they use them on power switches to prevent the pop...