I sometimes will raise the arm on my TT to pause the music  in the middle of a song then lower it to resume. A couple of times now with this new TT with Denon 103r cartridge, when I've lowered it and the music sounds all scratchy for a revolution or two then it's seems to "jump in the groove" and everything is fine. Is what's happening that the stylus just so happens to land on the high ridge between the tracks and that's why I hear the scratchy sound for a bit and then it drops in the groove?  Or is there possibly something else going on?

Rick

Yeah Chris I did check the tracking weight and it was within specs but a bit on the heavy side so I backed it off to about 2.5 grams. It's only done this twice now, once before the adjustment and once after. I'm not quite sure how to adjust the antiskating but it was supposedly all checked out when I bought this a few months ago.
So I take it everyone plops the needle down in the middle of songs and has never had this happen?

Rick

Raymond- I do remember when my Monster Alpha Genesis mc had the suspension fail and the bottom of the cartridge was riding on the record now that I think about it. I hope your table is playing beautiful music this weekend. Happy listening, Chris.