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With my previous Rega TTs I have routinely used the Dr. Feickert Cartridge Alignment Protractor. But now I have a Technics SL-1300G TT which I like very much. It came with a "52mm overhang alignment jig." When I use the technic's jig it all sounds fine. But when I haul out the Feickert device to double check it it shows the overhang WAAAAY out of alignment. The stylus is too far back in the headshell.One of the things I like about the Technics is that I can setup 3 or 4 cartridges on separate headshells and change them with just a change of tracking force (and phono stage settings, too).
But which should I trust? The Feickert or the Technics when it comes to overhang?
Today I installed a prized mid-1980's AT155LC and it sounds fabulous with the overhang set by the Technic's gauge, but using Feickert I can't even get close to setting the overhang that far forward in the headshell.
I'll have to see if I have any other alignment protractors any more.
Edits: 05/31/25 05/31/25 05/31/25
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Topic - Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - creativepart 14:26:02 05/31/25 (19)
- RE: Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - Thunderbox 15:19:26 06/28/25 (1)
- RE: Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - flood2 13:31:17 06/29/25 (0)
- What I've learned about this - creativepart 15:07:33 06/02/25 (3)
- RE: What I've learned about this - flood2 21:21:15 06/02/25 (2)
- Gasket removed? - creativepart 05:31:42 06/03/25 (1)
- RE: Gasket removed? - flood2 13:53:47 06/03/25 (0)
- RE: Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - John Elison 14:13:32 06/02/25 (0)
- RE: Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - Capt. Z 18:06:42 06/01/25 (0)
- Not a simple question - M3 lover 10:12:33 06/01/25 (1)
- I switched to a.... - Cougar 07:15:24 07/05/25 (0)
- RE: Who's Right? playing it by ear? - beach cruiser 22:39:34 05/31/25 (0)
- Both? - hesson11 15:26:38 05/31/25 (0)
- RE: Who's Right? Technics or Dr. Feickert? - Ozzy 14:50:10 05/31/25 (6)
- SL-1300G - creativepart 15:00:46 05/31/25 (5)
- RE: SL-1300G - Ozzy 03:04:34 06/02/25 (0)
- RE: "The '33' just sits there with no movement" ... - andyr 18:41:03 05/31/25 (3)
- Really? - creativepart 15:16:26 06/02/25 (2)
- RE: Really? - beach cruiser 17:51:02 06/02/25 (0)
- RE: Aah, OK ... - andyr 16:20:38 06/02/25 (0)