[78-L] Stylus Alignment

[David Lennick]

Thank you Doug..SOMEBODY got the quotation right! If I hear "The proof is in 
the pudding" once more I'll throw a pie at somebody, and it won't be whipped cream.

dl

On 11/2/2011 10:35 PM, Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> It ain't rocket science, despite what you may have been told.
>
> SME used to provide a strip of cardboard with marks on it which could
> be used to set the proper distance from the arm's pivot to the tip of
> the stylus,
> and maybe you can even get one from the SME web site?  (And there are
> other sources for this type of protractor, if you do some internet
> searches.)
>
> The other alignment concerns the angle between the stylus and the
> surface
> of the disc.  If your eyes are good, you can easily get "into the
> ballpark" simply
> by LOOKING CLOSELY at the way the stylus rests on the disc surface when
> the disc is not moving, first viewed from in front (azimuth), and
> second from the
> side (zenith).  The azimuth angle should be straight up and down, and
> the zenith
> should be straight up and down for 78s, but tiled backward about
> fifteen degrees
> for LPs.  (These are not hard and fast rules, of course.)
>
> Don't be afraid to use your ears, as the proof of the pudding is in
> the hearing.
>
> Doug Pomeroy
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>> Message: 15
>> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:17:39 -0700
>> From: John Charles Tippet<johntippet at cox.net>
>> Subject: [78-L] Stylus Alignment
>> To: 78-L<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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>> I will be replacing a Shure V15 Type III cartridge with a Shure N447
>> cartridge in a few weeks time.  The new Shure cartridge comes with 3
>> truncated elliptical stylii for playing 78s (2.5, 2.8 and 3.3 mils) in
>> addition to the standard LP stylus.  I believe that alignment of the
>> cartridge/stylus assembly to the tone arm (SME) is critical and that
>> there are alignment tools for accomplishing this.  Can anyone on this
>> list recommend someone in the southern California area who could do
>> this
>> for me?
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