Yikes! I am all in favor of doing your own setup but if your eyes are that bad maybe Dirty Harry is right, a man's got to know his limitations!
I like to use an ordinary headlamp. But really, no turntable setup should be done in your listening room. Clean off the dining or kitchen table and do it there where there is plenty of light from all directions and you can sit down nice and comfortable. Do it this way once you will never screw around trying to do it on the rack again.
Do it right like this and even the headlamp is overkill. Magnification? Get real! Audiophiles stress and obsess over every micron in setup. Some spend more than the cartridge on setup jigs and test records. All this to play a record the cartridge tracking will be way off the instant it moves from the two tiny little points we worry so much about it being perfect at.
Then the one thing that has by far the greatest influence on sound, VTA, many arms don't even allow adjustment, and the same audiophiles that obsess over alignment pooh-pooh anyone who bothers to get their VTA perfectly dialed in.
PSA- you don't need a headlamp to adjust VTA. Just listen. You will see.
I like to use an ordinary headlamp. But really, no turntable setup should be done in your listening room. Clean off the dining or kitchen table and do it there where there is plenty of light from all directions and you can sit down nice and comfortable. Do it this way once you will never screw around trying to do it on the rack again.
Do it right like this and even the headlamp is overkill. Magnification? Get real! Audiophiles stress and obsess over every micron in setup. Some spend more than the cartridge on setup jigs and test records. All this to play a record the cartridge tracking will be way off the instant it moves from the two tiny little points we worry so much about it being perfect at.
Then the one thing that has by far the greatest influence on sound, VTA, many arms don't even allow adjustment, and the same audiophiles that obsess over alignment pooh-pooh anyone who bothers to get their VTA perfectly dialed in.
PSA- you don't need a headlamp to adjust VTA. Just listen. You will see.