Well Tempered Amadeus

Chashas1, I'm still kind of struggling to understand various comments about the Amadeus. If the headshell is fixed in position, how is it possible to "set the cartridge parallel to the lines"? This would imply you can alter the position of the cartridge in the headshell (i.e., by at least twisting it). But how is this possible if the headshell is fixed in position? Thanks for any help you can offer.
-Bob

Hi Chashas,on my previous post,i also said set up finished.but after i listen carefully many time,i found a little bit distrotion in high frequence on last track,so i check Amadeus set up again,but it's right,So i wonder is it i have not set the overhang?or may be Benz Micro is not suitable for Amadeus.thanks
Sam

Bob, you don't want to twist the headshell...a cartridge will still have some play to make fine adjustments...the WTT website blog doesn't answer your questions?

Samtse, I wish I could help, but I have no experience with your cartridge. I have seen a wide variety of cartridges used with the Amadeus, so I'd assume you should have no problems...without being there I'm useless :).

Thanks, Chashas1. So if I understand you correctly, you CAN adjust the tracking angle simply by virtue of the "play" afforded by the cartridge-mounting screws in the headshell mounting holes, correct? (BTW, by "twisting" in my above post, I was referring to twisting the cartridge, not the headshell, which I know is fixed in position.)

Is there also enough "play" to achieve the optimum overhang of 0.5"? It seems this would be difficult to do, considering the widely varying lateral distances between the mounting holes and the styli of various cartridges.

These issues are not addressed in either the WTA blog or the user manual, as far as I can tell.

Thanks again,
-Bob

It's interesting to note that Sarcher30 found the Amadeus cum Dynavector 17D3 to sound so good, given that the 17D3 is one cartridge that has a very odd mounting hole to stylus tip distance, probably well outside (or inside) the norm. One would indeed think that the maker would provide the owner with a list of cartridges that will line up to some acceptable geometry when mounted in the fixed holes of the tonearm headshell. By the way, this issue applies to all the earlier WT tonearms that I know about. Samtse, you refer to "grids". Does the Amadeus come with some sort of template that has grids to align the cartridge body in the headshell. (There might be some wiggle room in the horizontal plane.) If so, that's probably what you need to do. Then just enjoy the music and fuhgeddaboudit.