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RE: What's the solution for high frequency mistracking?

Whenever I have had problems of this sort (which I absolutely cannot stand) it's always been the cartridge alignment - or a sticky arm bearing.

I strongly advise you to obtain (or make) an arc alignment protractor using the actual data of your arm geometry.

The hit & miss nature of standard protractors means you're faffing around trying to determine the actual point where the stylus is supposed to hit the record (the effective length I think it's called). With an arc protractor - this approximate methodology is eliminated - allowing you to concentrate on the actual alignment.

I made mine with manufacturer's data and autocad. Since then - I no longer know what inner groove distortion or tracing distortion means. I have gone on to discover what VTA and azimuth means (doh!) but I'm working on those as well.......

Best regards,

rr



Edits: 03/14/12

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