Setup Finale
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This is the final adjustment step before the tone arm base is finally fastened to the turntable
mounting board. In this step the whole tone arm and base is moved forward or backward to align
the On-record depression over the lead-in dead wax area.
1.
Place the wand in the deepest depression (On-record detent).
2.
Adjust the front end of the Stealth One by sighting down as best as possible to center the stylus
near the middle of an LP’s lead-in dead wax.
3. Depress the blue LED button and verify the actual landing position.
3.
Depress the blue LED button and verify the actual landing position.
4.
When satisfied that the stylus is dropping where desired, tighten the tone arm base and
graduate to listening.
Make your own stylus overhand gauge
You can make your own template for stylus overhang. Cut a strip from an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper, cut
parallel to a long edge of the paper, the strip about 1 1/2 inches wide. Use a hole punch to punch a hole
for the spindle near one end of the strip, hole is centered along the short dimension of the strip. Draw a
line through the center of the punched hole and along the center of the strip of paper, the length of the
strip. Mark two points on the line. When the paper is on the spindle and lying on the mat, one point
should be near the outer edge of a record, the other point should be near the end of the music grooves
near the label. Now move the paper so the line is approximately parallel to the Stealth One Plexiglas
channel. You will try to get the stylus to fall exactly on the two points you marked. You can start with the
channel. You will try to get the stylus to fall exactly on the two points you marked. You can start with the
point near the outer edge. Lower the stylus to see whether it falls on the point on the line. Then change
to use the point near the label. Lower the stylus to see whether it falls on the point on the line. You will
learn through practice (practice, practice) whether the paper needs to be rotated on the platter or the
cartridge overhang needs to be changed. The goal is to get the stylus to fall on both points without
rotating the paper or changing the overhang. Then the line is parallel to the tone arm and the lateral
tracking error is minimized. If you changed the overhang, the tracking force will have changed. Reset the
tracking force and check with the two points on the paper again.
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