All you have to do is to straighten it out. The ears are bent from the stress or the impact. Just unbend so it's straight. Use necessary measurements and angle tools to place it onto the perfect center and orthogonal.
Vintage Stanton cartridge — extreme lean to one side normal?
I just got this vintage Stanton D680EE and found that it leans to one side quite dramatically. Is this normal? The cart doesn’t appear to be damaged in any way, so it’s as if it came this way from the factory.
Also of note is that it has on old, possibly original stylus, and it is canted to one side as if it spent a great many years compensating for the lean.
What do you think? Normal? Defective?
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