Cartridge Setup for Turntable
Jun 3rd, 2011 by AnA
While listening to some of my favourite vinyl with my Thorens Turntable. I had noticed some distortion especially when playing the inner tracks.
After some research from the web, happen to come across this Cartridge Alignment Protractors as shown below. It was used for alignment of the cartridge to the turntable tonearm. This protractor could be downloaded for free from the web. However, after the cartridge setup using the downloaded protractor, the sound seem to improve without much distortion at the inner tracks. However, it depends on the vinyl itself, some of the vinyl still encountered slight distortion near to the inner groove. Continue to do some fine adjustment on the anti-skating and the tracking force does help a little but for some vinyl, it just cannot totally eliminated the distortion. I guess I got to live with the slight distortion at the mean time and enjoys my newly found music. Cheers!
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Hey, nice posts you got here.
I just registered to ask you a question about those screws connecting the at-95e cartridge to the thorens arm (I also have that thorens). What is the length of the screws I should use? I found a pair that has the correct thread size but I’m not sure if it is long enough…
About that distortion you have got: have you tried using a different protractor? You could try the “Stupid Stevenson alignment protractor” from here: http://www.vinylengine.com/cartridge-alignment-protractors.shtml . It is not a really common used one, but I found out that the cartridge I have on it now is aligned using this method.
Hello SV, thank you for viewing my site. Sorry for the late reply.
As for the screws to use. Mine was passed down from the previous owner. I think it is too long for the At-95e and thus I used washers to support it. I am using different cartridge now and thus not sure which screws are good for At-95e. Guess, got to trial and error. Sorry, cannot advise much. Thank you.