Seeburg G HELP

This is a very long story and I am so confused. I bought a Seeburg G with awful sound - low volume and no depth (sounds like am radio). So I send the amp out to be rebuilt and test the cartridge to make sure its good. Oh by the way the cartridge is a red head with t-shaped needles. The amp comes back and sounds no better but the amp rebuilder says the amp is from a "B". I also own a "C" with the same cartridge and the sound would blow you away. The amp guy suggests that I put the amp in my C and see waht happens. It sounds great, I put the C amp in the G and it sounds awful. So my question is how can I get the G with the B amp to have great sound? And why am I so confused?

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This is a very long story and I am so confused. I bought a Seeburg G with awful sound - low volume and no depth (sounds like am radio). So I send the amp out to be rebuilt and test the cartridge to make sure its good. Oh by the way the cartridge is a red head with t-shaped needles. The amp comes back and sounds no better but the amp rebuilder says the amp is from a "B". I also own a "C" with the same cartridge and the sound would blow you away. The amp guy suggests that I put the amp in my C and see waht happens. It sounds great, I put the C amp in the G and it sounds awful. So my question is how can I get the G with the B amp to have great sound? And why am I so confused?

Did you swap the cartriges? Also I would do an ohms check of the
large speaker and the field coil. Ray

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This is a very long story and I am so confused. I bought a Seeburg G with awful sound - low volume and no depth (sounds like am radio). So I send the amp out to be rebuilt and test the cartridge to make sure its good. Oh by the way the cartridge is a red head with t-shaped needles. The amp comes back and sounds no better but the amp rebuilder says the amp is from a "B". I also own a "C" with the same cartridge and the sound would blow you away. The amp guy suggests that I put the amp in my C and see waht happens. It sounds great, I put the C amp in the G and it sounds awful. So my question is how can I get the G with the B amp to have great sound? And why am I so confused?

If you not get any help here, I would suggest you try he http://lists.netlojix.com/mailman/listinfo/jukebox-list

This is a great place for getting help on your jukebox problems. Good luck

Is your 'good' sounding juke also using a redhead? The newer needles
for the red one (bent) are said to have very low output, the older
black cart would not suffer from this.

If that reveals nothing, take out the poor sounding speaker and
examine it for rubbing or loose voice coil and torn cone. try it on
the good sounding machine.

Also, examine the cable that comes from the mech to the amp. Look at
both pickup (RCA plug) and mute leads. often these have been melted on
the output tubes and this can cause problems. Try playing it with the
mute plug removed.

My guess is speaker or styli.

Do you have a DVM or similar meter?

Rob/NYC