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Vinyle engin protractors.
Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly.
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Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance.
Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance.
Linn baerwald alignment protractor.
Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor.
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.
Tonearm alignment calculator pro overhang shift calculator calculate optimum tonearm mounting distance and analyse changes in cartridge alignment.
Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge.
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Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment.
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.
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The vinyl engine has all the information you need to get the best sound from your records all completely free of charge.
Database alignment calculator overhang shift calculator.
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.
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.
Regularly updated it currently contains mounting dimensions and alignment data for over one thousand turntables and tonearms.