@fusian : Here the calculation. For a protractor you can contact MINT-LP and he will makes a dedicated protractor for your today TT/tonearm, ask him for Baerwald alignment. It’s really accurated and not an expensive protractor:
What is you tonearm’s Maximum Distortion?
I’ve been playing around with different cartridge mounting, as a Grace arm the plinth of my Lenco cannot be mounted at the recommended pivot-to-spindle distance of 222mm (closest it can get is 225mm).
My best figures in theory seem to be:
Max. Tracking Error: 3.51 degrees
Max. Distortion: 1.21 %
Average RMS Distortion: 0.73 %
This is with: P-t-s 225mm; overhang 11mm; offset angle 19 degrees.
What are your figures for your setup?
@fusian : Here the calculation. For a protractor you can contact MINT-LP and he will makes a dedicated protractor for your today TT/tonearm, ask him for Baerwald alignment. It’s really accurated and not an expensive protractor:
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Both you and Raul referenced the same algorithm on Vinyl Engine. I see where it has a readout for distortion once you plug in the known values for any particular tonearm, but I have no idea how it comes up with distortion %, mathematically. I guess it uses formulae first promulgated by the gods of alignment, Lofgren and Baerwald. Anyway, sorry I cannot respond to your actual question. My feeling is that distortion has to be measured, not predicted based on angular errors, |
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