Vinyle Engin Protractors

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Vinyle engin protractors.

Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. An arc is designed for a given mounting distance and you re not supposed to use an arc protractor designed for a given mounting distance with another mounting distance. Linn baerwald alignment protractor. The trick is to have the cartridge mounted so that the needle aligns perfectly on both dots without moving the protractor.

Cartridge alignment protractors cartridge set up made easy with our free downloadable protractors. The vinyl engine also hosts a database of nearly every turntable cartridge and tonearm ever manufactured along with their specifications and in many cases both instruction and technical manuals as well as a range of tools for calculating optimal cartridge alignment tonearm mounting position and tonearm cartridge resonant frequency. Other protractors can be downloaded from the vinyl engine. Some of them are baerwald type one is loefgren and two are stevenson baerwald.

In a paper stevenson wrote in 1966 pickup arm design wireless world may and june 1966 it s somewhere on the internet stevenson shed a new light on cartridge aligment issues. Tonearm alignment calculator pro overhang shift calculator calculate optimum tonearm mounting distance and analyse changes in cartridge alignment. Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance. I drew my first arc protractors in 2000 or 2001 and on every arc i ve designed i always insist you respect the given mounting distance.

Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor. Often copied but never beaten. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge.

Regularly updated it currently contains mounting dimensions and alignment data for over one thousand turntables and tonearms. As well as a huge archive of owners manuals service manuals schematics and brochures we also have images articles and reviews for most modern and vintage record players and a friendly forum where visitors can share their knowledge. Database alignment calculator overhang shift calculator. The vinyl engine has all the information you need to get the best sound from your records all completely free of charge.

Well there s no place like home home is where my turntable is and everyone should have a two point protractor. Strobe discs check the running speed of your turntable.