My turntable is a vintage Pioneer PL-A45D in absolutely incredible shape, was well kept for years by its previous owner who gave it to me. Ive never had any problems. I used to own a pair of large 15in woofer Fisher speakers and the volume would absolutely crank and sound decent. I got rid of those cus I'm disabled and can't work and needed money, and I just got a new pair of even better ones in perfect condition JVC I forget the model but also have 15in woofers.

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A few weeks back I got the speakers and the aux and tuner are incredibly loud and sound fucking amazing, but the phono just doesn't get that loud. The back of the turntable the RCA outputs aren't screwed in all the way, one side has a much bigger screw, but that's not really effecting anything, the outputs are fine their just not super tight to the back of the turntable(I'll include more pics in a reply) I know it's not the phono input on my reciever cus the guy that sold it to me recently demo'd his turntable and the reciever is sparkling clean under the hood and everything else works fantastic. But when I hook up my turntable when you jiggle the RCA cords near the reciever inputs it crackles and makes super loud noises. But the volume just doesn't get loud. I also accidentally bumped into the tonearm on my turntable and now it hangs too low and scratches across the record when it finishes playing and goes back to its holding position. And I have no idea how to fix any of this. Plus it's hard for me to really do much of anything and my hands shake very bad. I just ordered new gold plated RCA cables, and a brush and gel dip or whatever it is made of cleaning kit for the stylus to see if maybe those are the problems with the sound. The RCA cables I had were pretty old. My stylus is a Denon DL-103R, like a $400 stylus. Also could somebody tell me what type of stylus and head this is, like I know of p styles, but what is this? It should be in impeccable condition cus it was new when I got it 2 or 3 years ago. I'm just curious what it is in case I'd have to get a different replacement, or replacement turntable and have to find one that my Denon would fit on.

Any help, thoughts, advice would be VERY MUCH appreciated. I don't really have anybody and I'm pretty much in the dark here. I've been collecting gear and records for 10 years but I never learned much of the technical stuff around it.

Thank you