Vinyl Engine Baerwald Protractor

I did my best with the included protractor to align the cart properly but the technics doesn t quite use a baerwald alignment.

Vinyl engine baerwald protractor.

If you are already logged in to the forum and got this message when trying to download a file please check the faq for possible solutions. Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment. Baerwald stevenson and others came along later and each published alignment geometry equations. Another protractor for the technics this time aligning to the lofgren a or baerwald alignment with iec standard null points of 66 and 120 9mm.

It may be useful too if your arms mounting distance. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. In a paper stevenson wrote in 1966 pickup arm design wireless world may and june 1966 it s somewhere on the internet stevenson shed a new light on cartridge aligment issues. The vinyl engine also hosts a database of nearly every.

Some of them are baerwald type one is loefgren and two are stevenson. I ll assume here that the user is rotating the protractor during the first stage. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge. Some of the protractors posted on the vinyl engine are specific some of them are generic.

The rega baerwald protractor and the rega stevenson protractor are only of use with rega turntables equipped with rega tonearms. An arc is designed for a given mounting distance and you re not supposed to use an arc protractor designed for a given mounting distance with another mounting distance. Linn baerwald alignment protractor. Now this simplicity has a price.

When aligned the cartridge will sit further forward in the headshell angled slightly inwards. Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance. Technics lofgren a baerwald protractor. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance.

I drew my first arc protractors in 2000 or 2001 and on every arc i ve designed i always insist you respect the given mounting distance. Rega baerwald alignment protractor v 2. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor.

Suitable for rega tonearms only mounted at exactly 222mm standard mounting distance. Print on a3 sized paper. Linn baerwald alignment protractor.