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The next item which I need to purchase is the cartridge for my newly bought Thorens Turntable. After some research, decided to give Audio Technica AT95E cartridge a try. It came in about a week time.

This is my first time of setting up a cartridge on the turntable. The AT95E came with 2 sets of screws of different length. The screw thread size is 3mm I think. However, the Thorens headshell uses a 2mm threaded screw. So, it will not fit the Thorens headshell. Fortunately, I have a set of 2mm threaded screw on hand. So, installing the AT95E cartridge became not much of a problem. In the installation process, I learnt that I need to measure the resistance of the left/right channel using a multimeter. It reads 411 ohms and  418 ohms respectively for each channels. I presumed it was pretty chose and thus both channels should be balanced.

The sound produces by the Audio Technica AT95E is pretty good in my opinion. The tracking was not really good for the inner groove, but I think it could be due to my lack of experience as it was my first time installing cartridge. So some fine turning maybe needed. Anyway, I will read up more from the web to learn more so that I could improve the sound further. At the mean time, enjoys some of the pictures for the AT95E as below. Cheers!

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