Vinyl Engine Baerwald Protractor

Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor.

Vinyl engine baerwald protractor.

I wound up with. Some of them are baerwald type one is loefgren and two are stevenson. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. When aligned the cartridge will sit further forward in the headshell angled slightly inwards.

Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment. Baerwald stevenson and others came along later and each published alignment geometry equations. 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. I did my best with the included protractor to align the cart properly but the technics doesn t quite use a baerwald alignment.

Now this simplicity has a price. 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 rega baerwald protractor and the rega stevenson protractor are only of use with rega turntables equipped with rega tonearms. The vinyl engine also hosts a database of nearly every.

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. Technics lofgren a baerwald protractor. I ll assume here that the user is rotating the protractor during the first stage. 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.

Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. Includes integral strobe disc in 3 versions 50hz 60hz and 300hz. Linn baerwald alignment protractor. Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance.

Some of the protractors posted on the vinyl engine are specific some of them are generic. 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. Linn baerwald alignment protractor.

Print on a3 sized paper. Rega baerwald alignment protractor v 2. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge.