cartridge set up
it's called "well tempered classic arm upgrade" a new black platter and black arm. i was on a trip to California around 1997 and collect it directly from their office in Palo alto. with instruction how to mount it, i did the mounting for the original and for the upgrading. i am not quiet sure i understand your meaning of "distance from pivot axis to stylus". as i said , the headshell which the cartidge mounted on has the option to rotate the cartridge. so every different angle will give a different distance from the pivot to the stylus. if there only an option here to upload photos . here there are some pics. https://www.google.com/search?q=well+tempered+classic+upgraded+arm+photos&rlz=1C1AVUC_enIL798IL7... |
on the instruction pages that i received for the upgrade it doesn’t say any thig specific for the overhang and rest of the set up. only at the end of all mounting adjustment instruction: " fine tune all adjustments". it can be interpret that nothing is changed compare to the original overhang instructions, but i can't be sure about it. |
I think WT, the company, still exists. From them you should be able to obtain the necessary specifications for your tonearm. From what you wrote I am not at all sure I understand its provenance. But for any pivoted tonearm there will be a recommended pivot to spindle distance, stylus overhang, and effective length. To use any protractor that is flexible for all types of tonearms, including the Feickert protractor, you must have at least two out of three of these data points. So your job is to find those out. Also, if my memory serves me, at least the well tempered reference tonearm has fixed holes in its permanent headshell. And the tonearm mount is a single hole drilled through the chassis. So the pivot point is fixed in space and where the cartridge sits on the headshell, that also is fixed. More conventional headshells have slots that allow you to slide the cartridge back-and-forth to obtain proper alignment. In your case it may be that the only parameter you are able to adjust is headshell offset angle. That isn’t the greatest situation, but at least it limits the degree to which you can get this wrong. By the way, getting it wrong by a small factor is no big deal. |
it's a deferent company think in new Zealand with a bit deferent arm and turntable. asked them and they answered they dosnt support the original one. mine is not the reference but the classic upgraded. i am using the original protractor. the pivot does not fix, you can move it, same with the cartridge on the headshell can be rotate to different angles. |
