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1.
Adjustment of Tonearm Horizontal Balance
- Push the Cue Lever down
- Turn Anti-Skate to "0"
- Release the Tonearm
Lock
- Adjust the rear
Balance Weight until the Tonearm floats in the air, and
is approximately horizontal to the Turntable Chassis Body.
- go to #2 Adjustment of
Stylus Pressure
2.
Adjustment of Stylus Pressure
- Return the Tonearm to
the Arm Rest and secure it with the Arm Lock
- Hold the back portion
of the Balance Weight and turn only the Number Scale untill it reads "0"
- Adjust the Stylus
Pressure by turning the entire Balance Weight Assembly Counterclockwise
to increase the Pressure
- Adjust this until the
number scale reads the same as the recommended stylus pressure for your
cartridge
Here are our recommended pressures
settings for several popular cartridges:
- Remember that the
lower settings will cause less mechanical wear on your vinyl, not to
mention your stylus diamond.
- If you desire
more Stylus Pressure you can take off the Tonearm Weight
and flip it around and re-install it "backwards" to give a 2 g increase
in
pressure in the full counterclockwise position.
Ortofon
Concorde
2.5 - 4.0 g
Stanton 500 / 505AL / DJ Craze 3.0 - 5.0
g
Stanton 680 HP & EL
2.5 - 4.5 g
Stanton Trackmaster
3.0 - 4.5 g
Shure M44 - 7 & G
1.5 - 3.5 g
Shure M35 X & S
2.0 - 4.0 g
3.
Adjustment of Anti - Skating
While in normal forward rotation, the record spins Clockwise. The
Spinning
of the record naturally places extreme Centripetal force on the
Stylus,
causing the Tonearm to want to fly to the Inside of the record. This
can
also be the cause of record Skipping. An even larger and most often
misunderstood
phenomonon is an imbalance between the two Stereo channels,
because
when a record is pressed, Stereo information is placed along
either
side of the groove. When one side of the Groove is "Read" more haevily
this
causes a signal imbalance which must be corrected with master or
channel
balance controls.
Several
reasons you need Anti-Skating to be set correctly
1. Potential for uneven Stylus Wear
2. Cheaply Manufactured Records
3. Incorrect Sytlus Pressure -
4. Vinyl Warps
5. To ensure Stereo playback with even
channel distribution
The
Anti - Skate mechanism allows the user to preset a specific amount of
opposite
force (measured in grams) which may be placed upon the
Tonearm Assembly. to defeat the
tendency of the Tonearm to want to "Fly: toward the center of a
Record
during playback.
Unfortunately, there is no "Magic" setting for this feature,
because
the spring which is enabled by the Anti-Skate knob is not of a
uniform
tension due to age and amount of use.
Therfore, every Turntable is different
If you want this to be set correctly, you need to bring us
your decks as this is done as part of our "Maintainence
Service".Please
go to the "REHAB" section and check it out.
We have a special record disk designed to measure and adjust Anti
- Skate, plus the experience to do it right.
4. Tonearm
Height Adjustment
- Release the Height
Adjustment Lock Tab
- Rest the Stylus on a
Test Record and adjust theTonearm height Ring
Adjuster until the Tomearm is parallel with
the record surface.
- Lock the Arm Tab after
all adjustments have been made
- If you know the
height of your cartridge, then refer to the following information:
Cartridge height in Millimeters:
Height Control Position:
17
0
18
1
19
2
20
3
21
4
22
5
23
6
notes:
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If you desire somewhat better tracking ability then set the height up
one (+ 1) from the recommended setting as this gives the stylus more
leverage against the record surface
- If you are setting up
your turntables for scratch play,
then set the height adjustment at the highest setting
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