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The Rega is using offset bearings and toneram geometry aligned to their scheme....

Posted by tubesforever (M) on April 14, 2007 at 08:31:06

In Reply to: This is interesting as I'm setting up a Rega now... posted by pretzel_logic on April 13, 2007 at 10:43:24:

Which is why the Baerwald produced inner track distortion.

John's analysis of tracking angle error is correct and spot on. However it will not always sound right when the engineering of a tonearm is designed around a different alignment scheme.

Try Rega's null points first. Then try Stephensons. I ended up using Stephensons.

The nice thing about all these various alignment schemes is that it takes only a few hours time to try the options and finalize on the one that sounds best over the entire album.

On my Rega arm, the inner tracks were a disaster with Baerwald. With my other tonearms I often prefer Baerwald to the other options.

Baerwald is a superb alignment scheme, but it did not work with my Rega arm. I did run my Rega first at slighly under 223 but ended up going to 222mm. With the Riggle VTAF and a Denon DL103R I believe Riggle recommends 224-226 because of the cartridge.

Garth about tore me to pieces for mentioning that on a post. I did find my DL 103R to sound better overall at 222mm and Garth was pleased as pie to hear me report that news!

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