Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos

@lewm I am not a member of the 'fix it with $1000's gang', I'm on the, 'be investigative' and look at what you are doing with the set up, for some that is a harder method than parting with money without much knowledge of what is being bought into  .

I will usually be on the outside of many a discussion, as the fix is commonly how much monies are to be spent on a unknown product with the chances it has never been an 'in front of experience' by the OP, as well as very likely the recommender as well.

In my Country, that as a practice, has a special idiom reserved for such a practice, and it is not, 'waste not want not' that I encourage. 

Most of us regulars would agree with your philosophy.  There is not a single element in either of my two systems that has not been modified (hopefully, upgraded) by me, and I totally agree with the vital importance of structural elements.  I consider myself somewhat of an audio cheapskate.  But who is being hounded, was my question.

Don’t let the hounds get ya down…

A cardinal rule of mine…..

@lewm It is no secret, I have a means of writing on this forum, that is long winded (prolix), I make such a claim unashamedly, and for such I receive comment.

Additionally, I quite enjoy using Capitol Letter whilst structuring a sentence, it is my choice to not restrict a Capitol to a Proper Noun and to stray into poor Orthography.

The forum does not bind individuals from having a display of Poetic License or to Wax Lyrical, I enjoy this injection of unruliness used in a selection of my Posts.

None of the above matters, if the content put forward has enabled another to ponder something described a little deeper, and adopt a method that has been presented. My own personal mail box is testament to others on occasion informing the Penny Dropped and an idea is now being sought through to a realisation.

There is very little discovered within this forum to discourage me to be something different. My observations of this forum, before becoming a member and as a member, leaves me with the understanding the fundamental is about encouraging inquirers to spend, and it does seem to me prior to my joining this was a direction steered from those with concealed agendas, there is no doubt, a period within this forum where a unbalanced period was dominated by members with a commercial interest in the outcome of inquiries made within a thread.  

Some got so blase, the approach was almost a sales pitch with some sort of elaborate description to be excused for such a Cold Calling Attitude.

I joined this forum to counter such an attitude, and share alternative info, based on experiences had only, and at worse, based on experiences described by known and very trusted individuals. 

I am always encouraged, to participate in this forum, there is a lot that can be shared, even if a little repetitive, that will hopefully, encourage an individual to optimise what they possess as an audio set up, for not too much of a financial outlay, prior to throwing substantial monies at items, that are not encountered in advance and only a fantastical perception of its performance is the faux experience that has developed.

There are hostilities to be met, when one steers the idea away from spending, especially within a environment that is quite honed on the concept of spending as the solution.

Fortunately this member is not a flimsy reed in the wind, there is a bit more resistance to the forces that are around.

Well back to our regular programming. Since I have a spare arm board for the SOTA and the Scheu I figured I would trial a temporary installation. I started laying out the SOTA option, and even at the eyeballing stage it can be seen that the rear stub of the arm is too long to clear the right corner of the table. Not only do you have to space the arm board or arm up, the dustcover is going to have to be removed. Not an option I wanted to pursue. 

Next up came the Scheu, and so I pulled the Dynavector off. I roughed the angle of the board in, placed the arm on the back of board and held it in place with a generous application of strong double sided tape. It took a bit of maneuvering to get the right angle for the arm, and this gives me a reference when the permanent arm board shows up so I can lay it out for a drilling pattern. Made fine adjustments with the board to obtain correct spindle to pivot numbers and we cinched down the bolt. 

As long as I was this far, I decided to put a cartridge on it and see if the offset between the arm board and the top of the platter was too great, or if I would have to find a way to raise the arm board. Put on an Audio Tekne MC6310 and adjusted VTA to find I was in the center of the range. At this point I can set VTF as that only takes a minute. Now with minimal antiskate dialed in I can at least spin a donor album and make sure both channels are playing. Which I did, and even without finishing the alignment it sounded surprisingly good. 

So I ran some errands and when I came back in the afternoon, I aligned the cartridge and decided to spin a couple of good albums. The performance is quite nice, its rich and vibrant without any significant loss of detail. Definite improvement over my Dynavector, so this is where I am going to use it. The only downside is I now have no way to play my Ortofon MC2000's. 

I know a Scheu dealer in Canada and I reached out to see if he had any extra black arm boards. No blank ones, but there was one with a small hole drilled towards the back and in the center axis of the board, probably in the 30 mm range. Probably for an older Rega, Origin Live, or something like that. I can cover that up with the base flange of the Triplanar and then drill the bolt pattern for a permanent mount. So once I get that I will complete the permanent installation. But for now I can listen to it, and its a gem.