Uni-Protractor Set tonearm alignment


Looks like Dertonarm has put his money where his mouth is and designed the ultimate universal alignment tractor.

Early days, It would be great to hear from someone who has used it and compared to Mint, Feikert etc.

Given its high price, it will need to justify its superiority against all others. It does look in another league compared to those other alignemt devices

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Dear all, the UNI-Protractor does feature on it's main frame laser engraved the inner radii for both IEC and DIN standard in a way that if you place it on the record, you can immediately read-out what is the inner groove limit of the record.
Thus giving you a secure basis to choose alignments taking into consideration the groove limit of the majority of your records.
Cheers,
D.
Dear all, just out of curiosity - does anyone know, what calculation is used with the Dennesen Soundtraktor ?
Cheers,
D.
Raul,
When I changed to the 231.5mm spindle to pivot dimension and 14.5mm overhang, I changed the off-set angle to compensate correctly at the null points.
Dear Dertonarm: The original FR manufacturer numbers are totally wrong, these people IMHO wants only that the numbers appears in easy way for the customers but with out real care on the accuracy to Stevenson IEC solution and with no care on distortions. The original numbers: 245/230/15 and 21.5° don't match with any known geometry solution it does not matters changes in the input data for those calculations, makes no sense.

The " new " parameters for Stevenson IEC are better and the ones for Löfgren A/Baerwald ( that I posted to Halcro. ) are exactly the ones for this solution.

It is not true that the parameters you give Halcro that match Stevenson has lower distortions and this any one can confirm through VE calculations where we can see and " read " the diagrams/chart/graphics with the result on Stevenson/Baerwald/Löfgren curves.

Stevenson only gives a lower distortion at the inner grooves with a higher distortions all over the remaining 90% of vthe LP recorded area.
IMHO you have a misunderstood in this subject, please check not only the Dennes papers but the graphics on the curves through VE calculations.

Btw, Halcro obviously that a re-set in VTF is in order. I only want to insist that the reset on VTA/SRA and Azymuth is not only a must but critical to any comparison: accuracy in this set up parameters is a must ( desired. ) to have.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
Dertonarm, I for one would like to know what the Dennessen is based on. Enlighten us if you know.