Vinyl Engine Baerwald Protractor

In a paper stevenson wrote in 1966 pickup arm design wireless world may and june 1966 it s somewhere on the internet stevenson shed a new light on cartridge aligment issues.

Vinyl engine baerwald protractor.

Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. It may be useful too if your arms mounting distance. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor.

Now this simplicity has a price. Linn baerwald alignment protractor. Includes integral strobe disc in 3 versions 50hz 60hz and 300hz. If you are already logged in to the forum and got this message when trying to download a file please check the faq for possible solutions.

I drew my first arc protractors in 2000 or 2001 and on every arc i ve designed i always insist you respect the given mounting distance. The rega baerwald protractor and the rega stevenson protractor are only of use with rega turntables equipped with rega tonearms. When aligned the cartridge will sit further forward in the headshell angled slightly inwards. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge.

An arc is designed for a given mounting distance and you re not supposed to use an arc protractor designed for a given mounting distance with another mounting distance. The vinyl engine also hosts a database of nearly every. Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment. Linn baerwald alignment protractor.

I did my best with the included protractor to align the cart properly but the technics doesn t quite use a baerwald alignment. Technics lofgren a baerwald protractor. Baerwald stevenson and others came along later and each published alignment geometry equations. I wound up with.

Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance. Rega baerwald alignment protractor v 2. I ll assume here that the user is rotating the protractor during the first stage. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance.

Print on a3 sized paper. Suitable for rega tonearms only mounted at exactly 222mm standard mounting distance. The angle formed by the two lines is equal to 15 with a tonearm mounted at 222 mm that angle should be 14 22 with a tonearm mounted at 215mm that angle should be 14 7 both results come from the rega baerwald and technics baerwald arc protractors drawing.