Vinyle Engin Protractors

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.

Vinyle engin 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. Some of the protractors posted on the vinyl engine are specific some of them are generic. The original and best tonearm database. Strobe discs check the running speed of your turntable.

Linn baerwald alignment protractor. Some of them are baerwald type one is loefgren and two are stevenson baerwald. 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. Often copied but never beaten.

The trick is to have the cartridge mounted so that the needle aligns perfectly on both dots without moving the protractor. Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. Tonearm alignment calculator pro overhang shift calculator calculate optimum tonearm mounting distance and analyse changes in cartridge alignment.

Regularly updated it currently contains mounting dimensions and alignment data for over one thousand turntables and tonearms. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge. Database alignment calculator overhang shift calculator. Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance.

Cartridge alignment protractors cartridge set up made easy with our free downloadable protractors. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. Now this simplicity has a price. The vinyl engine has all the information you need to get the best sound from your records all completely free of charge.

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. 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.