I'm doing it the old school way. Of course, the tonearm has to be flat and I do that by eye. Then I apply the manufacturers recommended weight and play around that afterwards using my ears.
I try the limits of adding and substracting weight until I can detect distortion then do the math and set the weight to the exact middle of these two extremes, and always end up very near the manufacturers recommendations. I used to service old school exotic hifi turntables with little cables and fancy weights on them, so calibrating a technics feels like a piece of cake.
no not quite. It has to be perfectly level so the needle does not attack the record at an angle, thus increasing tear and wear for both the needle and the record but also decreasing skipping resistance simply because the needle is not sitting properly in the groove. The weight is here to do the rest, though I have seen a few scratch DJs glueing pennies or putting blu-tack on the cartridges.and then adjust the tonearm height to your own preference.
Try setting up one of these,
then going back on calibrating a 1200 never felt so easy....
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