Vinyl Asylum Welcome Licorice Pizza (LP) lovers! Setup guides and Vinyl FAQ.

---

[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Vinyl Asylum ]

---

[ Alert Moderator ]

---

RE: Replacing the SME 10 stock tonearm

Posted by KiK (A) on February 4, 2021 at 18:20:10

In Reply to: Replacing the SME 10 stock tonearm posted by jperry on February 4, 2021 at 10:11:57:

Hello

A timely question, for me at least. I just changed cartridges on my 2 tables with Rega arms and it was not a pleasant experience, I broke into cold sweat trying to fix the cartridge onto the arm as they had no screw sleeves built into them. It was a screw and nut affair.

I now use a phillps head screw and a hex nut with a phillps head screwdriver below and a hex nut driver on top to tighten the nut from above. With the phillps head screw, the driver does not slip off the screw head easily.

A replaceable headshell still requires fixing a new cartridge to the headshell which still involves the overall alignment of the cartridge/arm assembly.

Though individuals have preferred cartridge/s, be it MC or MM or both, the MM cartridge has an advantage in that once fixed and aligned properly, only the stylus assembly is to be replaced without any realignment of the cartridge/arm. This still depends on how tight the cartridge is fixed to the headshell and the amount of strength one applies to remove the stylus assembly.

There are many decent MM cartridges now that only require the stylus assembly to be changed and I've taken this route with one table.

Cheers.

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Signature Sound

[ Signature Sound Lounge ]

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---