Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front?

Plinko,

Glad that was helpful. Trying to measure/adjust the pivot point when you can't even see it is too tough for me!

Mario b,

IME Baerwald alignment cannot be attained with a Shelter cartridge on a Rega mounted at the standard 222mm. The stylus will not reach the null points. This is true of many cartridges, as explained on the instructions that come with most Rega/Baerwald protractors.

This is not a "flaw" of Baerwald protractors. It's a mathematical function that results from choosing a different alignment than the arm was designed for.

BTW, 60mm and 115mm are not the Baerwald-defined null points. You can use those points if you like, but you won't be following Baerwald's equations. The Baerwald null points are 66.0 and 120.9mm.

There is no reason to be nervous about changing your arm's mounting distance, especially on a table like Overhang's Gyro that's specifically designed for it. Deviating from Rega's specified 222mm to achieve a superior alignment has no down-side and no risk. Why would you be reluctant to do that?

One can certainly DIY one's own protractors of course, using any null point or null points one chooses. But a mirrored protractor like the TTB or Wally is more accurate for cantilever alignment than a piece of oak tag.

Dear Doug: +++++ " By comparison, the S&B's are bloated, rounded off and "tubey" sounding. " +++++

After several months finally you achieve to convincing that the step-up transformer is not the best way to go, better say: is not the way to go, for amplified the signal on a phono cartridge. Welcome aboard!!!!!!!!!!!

+++++ " Bad news: still plenty of "equalizers". " +++++

Like other things in the past sooner or latter you will be convince that any " equalizer " is not the way to go. We will see.

+++++ " Now where am I going to put two subs?) " +++++

You have to have. When that happen you will be really happy about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Very useful thread... and I always thought that the amount of alcohol consumption on the prior evening determined the overhang! ;-)

Hi Doug,

It just seems so much like the tail wagging the dog to my sense of geometry, albeit novice in these matter that it is. How is it that an arm manufacturer’s mount and overhang and therefore its designed tracking arc get trumped by a protractor?
Maybe it’s the simpleton in me looking to reduce complexity, but I’ve got to ask… Why can’t one set the cartridge overhang using linear measurements as per the arm’s manufacturer for the designed tracking arc: Then use compassed circles for Baerwald, Stevenson or whomever one divines to have the null points one’s looking for, and use these to set just the stylus tangent? What am I missing?

I realize my jugular is exposed with this, so be easy on me. Thanks.

Mario

while the arm is under the designers control, cartridge and turntable are usually made by someone else. Thus the overhang is affected by the size of turntatble plinth, where the hole is drilled and the size of the catridge. So let's say you buy a sota millenia with SME V and and sumiko celebration and it was used to voice that table. You may find that it would be right just by following the manufactures instructions. Use of arm and cartridge of your choice means adjusting accordingly.