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I've been reading a lot about cartridge alignment.
Most of the discussions about the differences between Baerwald/Lofgren A, Lofgren B and Stevenson seem to indicate that all three can be successfully implemented without regard for the tonearm being used.
The tonearms that I own have their vertical bearings "canted" in a way that will maintain azimuth as the tonearm moves in the vertical.
If a cartridge alignment, different than what the tonearm was designed for, is used the cartridge will have to be "twisted" in the head shell. This will cause a shift in the azimuth as the tonearm rides up and down while playing anything other than a perfectly flat record.
Furthermore, every time the tonearm is lower or raised at the back to set/change the SRA, the azimuth will have to be reset.
And further again, if a thin record is played the azimuth will be different than when a thick record is played.
My conclusion is that one needs to know (or figure out) what alignment the tonearm was designed for and stick with that. Always use the alignment that places the cartridge (cantilever) straight in line with the head shell.
Tre'
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Topic - Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - Tre' 07:30:53 07/07/20 (70)
- I'm using the funky Grace alignment - Paul Tobin 06:31:38 07/09/20 (8)
- RE: I'm using the funky Grace alignment - John Elison 07:58:48 07/09/20 (3)
- RE: I'm using the funky Grace alignment - Paul Tobin 08:23:00 07/09/20 (2)
- RE: I'm using the funky Grace alignment - John Elison 09:28:38 07/09/20 (1)
- RE: I'm using the funky Grace alignment - Paul Tobin 16:03:14 07/09/20 (0)
- As I do more reasearch.... - Tre' 06:54:48 07/09/20 (3)
- Maybe Grace were on to something - Paul Tobin 07:08:15 07/09/20 (2)
- RE: Maybe Grace were on to something - John Elison 08:23:57 07/09/20 (0)
- RE: Maybe Grace were on to something - Tre' 07:44:34 07/09/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - flood2 15:24:38 07/07/20 (3)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - Tre' 17:54:59 07/07/20 (2)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - flood2 19:59:16 07/09/20 (1)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - Tre' 06:24:42 07/10/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - dave slagle 10:53:29 07/07/20 (7)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - Tre' 11:14:49 07/07/20 (6)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - flood2 20:07:06 07/09/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 11:48:11 07/07/20 (4)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - dave slagle 12:05:40 07/07/20 (3)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 14:34:36 07/07/20 (2)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - dave slagle 16:02:58 07/07/20 (1)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 16:17:56 07/07/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 09:44:57 07/07/20 (21)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - tketcham 06:35:39 07/08/20 (6)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - flood2 02:31:59 07/11/20 (1)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - tketcham 04:20:54 07/11/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 07:16:52 07/08/20 (3)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - tketcham 09:58:27 07/08/20 (2)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John Elison 10:40:00 07/08/20 (1)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - tketcham 12:20:03 07/08/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - volunteer 10:31:20 07/07/20 (0)
- Thank you for you thoughtful analysis - Tre' 10:02:22 07/07/20 (12)
- RE: Thank you for you thoughtful analysis - John Elison 11:26:28 07/07/20 (11)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - Waxxy 16:00:38 07/07/20 (8)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - John Elison 01:36:43 07/08/20 (3)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - Waxxy 10:41:24 07/09/20 (2)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - John Elison 12:43:56 07/09/20 (1)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - Waxxy 09:01:40 07/10/20 (0)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - Tre' 16:27:56 07/07/20 (0)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - John Elison 16:27:24 07/07/20 (2)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - Tre' 18:38:25 07/07/20 (1)
- RE: I'm calling horse doo-doo! - John Elison 02:23:25 07/08/20 (0)
- RE: Thank you for you thoughtful analysis - Tre' 13:02:59 07/07/20 (1)
- RE: Thank you for you thoughtful analysis - John Elison 14:43:48 07/07/20 (0)
- +1 - Lew 09:20:11 07/07/20 (4)
- RE: +1 - Tre' 10:05:51 07/07/20 (3)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - John-from Seattle 08:28:56 07/07/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - Story 08:01:16 07/07/20 (20)
- Story, my cart has a MicroLinear stylus. - ghost of olddude55 08:59:08 07/07/20 (18)
- "Align to Stevenson" Forgive me but I read that as Adlai Stevenson! Me bad! )MT( - J. S. Bach 09:22:04 07/07/20 (17)
- Your birth must have been many moons ago. Sam Rayburn hadn't even died yet. :^) nt - alaskahiatt 14:46:50 07/07/20 (1)
- +1 )MT( - J. S. Bach 16:08:16 07/07/20 (0)
- Funny. - ghost of olddude55 09:55:56 07/07/20 (14)
- RE: Funny. - John-from Seattle 17:12:45 07/07/20 (13)
- When I hear somebody say how much better things were when we were kids... - ghost of olddude55 03:36:27 07/08/20 (12)
- And we came through it OK. - Opus 33 1/3 09:18:54 07/08/20 (7)
- Great time for me as a 10 year old white kid but 1957 wasn't so peachy for blacks. nt - Rick W 13:13:01 07/08/20 (0)
- Our streets are safe here. - ghost of olddude55 11:32:24 07/08/20 (4)
- Rerspectfully disagree. Back them disputes were settled with fists. - Opus 33 1/3 11:44:56 07/08/20 (3)
- Perception versus reality... - ghost of olddude55 12:02:29 07/08/20 (2)
- Well how's this for reality. - Opus 33 1/3 16:48:49 07/08/20 (1)
- Everything is relative. - ghost of olddude55 14:28:31 07/09/20 (0)
- +1 )MT( - J. S. Bach 10:39:00 07/08/20 (0)
- RE: When I hear somebody say how much better things were when we were kids... - John-from Seattle 08:51:34 07/08/20 (3)
- The oil shocks...remembah those? - ghost of olddude55 11:34:10 07/08/20 (2)
- RE: The oil shocks...remembah those? - John-from Seattle 11:39:35 07/08/20 (1)
- Seventy-nine was a picnic compared to '73. - ghost of olddude55 12:05:39 07/08/20 (0)
- RE: Cartridge alignment and tonearm design - digepix 08:36:19 07/07/20 (0)
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