Re: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... - PC Dude - Vinyl Asylum

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Re: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge.....

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In Reply to: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... posted by Thorsten on April 15, 1999 at 12:20:12:

Thorsten,
Thanks - this is a great tutorial. I am having a problem with my new Rega Planar 3 and Exact cartridge that this may help to solve. After setting up the cartridge pretty much per your procedure, I could not get the cartridge to track but the first, easiest track on the HFNRR test record. All other tracks resulted in a loud buzzing on both channels regardless of bias adjustment on the RB300. Increasing the tracking force to over 2.5 grams seemed to help, but this seemed a bit much. The cartridge did not sound that bad on most records, however.
Inspecting the cartridge with a microscope revealed a slight, maybe 10 degree horizontal rotation of the cantaliever and stylus (along the long tonearm axix) with respect to the headshell.
I installed an old Stanton 681EEE cartridge in the arm and it seemed to track the bias tracks well - all but the last one. Of course, VTA was way off for this case.
Steve Lauerman at Rega has been very accomodating so far - he is sending me a new cartridge to compare with my old one. I didn't try zeroing the stylus force spring and using the counterweight only like you suggested - this may help. I'll keep you posted on the results with the new cartridge.

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Topic - Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... - Thorsten 12:20:12 04/15/99 (12)

Corrections and Additions - Jon Risch 19:57:27 04/16/99 (7)

Re: Corrections and Additions (and ThanX) - Thorsten 07:05:50 04/19/99 (1)

Re: Corrections and Additions (and ThanX) - Jon Risch 17:42:16 04/19/99 (0)

Re: Corrections and Additions - TAFKA Steve 07:51:06 04/18/99 (4)

Re: Corrections and Additions - Jon Risch 11:23:16 04/18/99 (3)

Re: Corrections and Additions - TAFKA Steve 12:55:19 04/18/99 (2)

Re: Corrections and Additions - Jon Risch 17:38:04 04/19/99 (1)

Thanks for the enlightening info! - TAFKA Steve 14:42:49 04/21/99 (0)

Re: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... - PC Dude 11:54:06 04/16/99 (0)

Re: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... - BigJim 16:11:22 04/15/99 (0)

Thanks Thorsten - ken m 13:01:36 04/15/99 (1)

Re: Thanks Thorsten - Thorsten 13:51:47 04/15/99 (0)

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Re: Setting up your FIRST Cartridge..... - PC Dude 11:54:06 04/16/99 (0)

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