Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Align your phono cartridge


Just bought a new/used turntable, a Stanton T.80. It's fantastic -- even has digital out which I can hook up to my Mac mini's digital in via a RCA to 3.5mm cable.

I installed my Grado Green Label cartridge and used this protractor to line it up. The image above shows what it should look like when you are done.


I was skeptical that a new turntable would make that much of a difference, but it really does -- this is likely the nicest turntable I've ever owned -- and it has other features oriented towards turntablist/scratching -- cool! Was playing around with that last night -- scratching a Jim & Tammy Bakker album.

Here's some other protractors that might work better for you, depending on what turntable you have.

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