Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters

@rauliruegas It did not make sense to him because back in the day many more records were run right up to the label. Now that is a very rare occurrence. Modern records space out the grooves a little more and resort to two discs instead of one. The main reason for this is CDs accommodate much longer play times than records and artists have become accustomed to that extra space, thus the record version has to resort to two discs anyway, but even re-releases of old material are resorting to two discs when originally there was only one. Zappa records are a good example. 

You may love pivoted offset arms, but I do not. The problem is that there have not been any compromised tangential designs until recently. Both the Reed 5T and Schroder LT are brilliant designs that maintain tangency, have low horizontal effective mass and obviate the need for an antiskating device. You may want to talk about pivoted arms, an unfortunate, but necessary compromise, I would rather talk about these. Once the patent runs out on the Schroder LT there will be many more arms like it. The Reed is much more complicated and twice the price. 

@dover My apologies I missed your original post. Yes manual states 222mm and I do have the single point supplied alignment gauge. My preference is working with an arc protractor and wilL purchase one shortly. Thanks for the response. 

@dover : No it’s not wrong because OL says a margin of +,- 2mm. In the other side we can change those numbers with out any negative consequence because 225 means longer EL and les distortion.

I posted the link with 222mm Löfgren A. I think you not read it not even the link of OL protractor I posted.

R.

@dover : "

Origin live Agile ( standard 9.5" arm 239mm ) has a recommended pivot to spindle distance 222mm.

Overhang for Baerwald A is 17.3mm "

I’m not wrong because I only gave neonknigth different alignment choices for his tonearm.

Who is way wrong with the numbers is not only you but OL too because 222 + 17.53 is not 239 or 9.5". One of my options that I posted puts the best number nearer to that 239 with a difference of only 0.1mm instead 0.3mm.

Anyway, numbers just do not coincide.

R.

Dear @mijostyn  :  It's not that I prefer pivoted against LT only that today for me is the best option, that's all.

Btw, it's useless to follow the dialogue with you about Löfgren A and B because I think your never read before the over 150 pages of the 1938  Löfgren papers where you can learn which was his main target no matters if the grooves goes up to the label or not, next again part of what I posted about:

" Löfgren developed an optimisation method which involved applying the minimax principle (as used by Wilson) to the WTE. The maximum level of the distortion is then represented by the slope of the tracking error graph rather than by the level of the tracking error. This method results in less tracking error at the inner grooves where the wavelengths are shorter. The introduction of this inverse radius weighting complicates the analytical solution, and Löfgren uses an approximation method which relies on the error angle being small. This is a reasonable mathematical approach, and incurs very little error. An interesting feature of the optimisation method is that the null radii will later be shown to be the same as those provided by the later authors. The optimum solution from Löfgren provides for an offset angle and overhang which minimises and equalises the three resulting WTE peaks across the record playing surface. "

The B solution was only a sifde line and not his main target but to understand what I said before about the LP label you need to understand in deep Lofgren A in the WP.

Btw, the comment from that expert I posted came from 2010 .

No matters where the LP label is, just after the second null point ( inner ) the cartridge task is way more complicated and where the levels of distortions goes up and up till the last inner groove. The optimization WTE in Lófgren A permits lower distortion level where it matters the more. Take it or leave it but these is the main target/issue by Löfgren and he stated in those WP.

R.