STANTON T80 AND TRAKTOR

[dsfalen]

I recently bought two stanton t80s and I have a few concerns.
When playing vinyls, the needle has a lot of feedback even when nothing is touching it, and when you slide your finger across, the distortion is very loud.
also, i am currently waiting for my traktor software and coded vinyls in the mail, but in the mean time i tried my tables on my friends traktor. when we tried to mix, the software would not calibrate with the tables at all. the table frequency diagram was not a circle shape like when his numarks are hooked to the software, but was a jumbled mess.
I hope I didnt purchase defective tables, any suggestions would help. I did not try anything as of yet, because i am still waiting for my own software, needles, cartridge and everything is the same as when i bought them about 1.5 months ago. taking what i described, what could be the issue??

[bustadoug]

Sounds like a grounding issue.really affects timecoded vinyl signal

[dsfalen]

Do you know anything about the stanton t80s? I considered it to be the ground, but there is no ground port on the tables.

[dsfalen]

supposedly, stanton t80s, do not need to be grounded, because of the line/phono switch on the back. im not sure what it should be kept on while using traktor, and if traktor's settings needs to be changed to fit this type of table?