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From: jd@umich.UUCP (Joseph B. Douds)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: turntable tone-arm balancing
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 19:03:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 19:03:19 1985
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Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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I just bought a new cartridge, and I'm not sure how to balance the
tone-arm of my turntable now.  The salesman acted like he knew how,
but he obviously didn't.  I don't have my owner's manual either, so
I'm stuck.  Is there a generic method for balancing, or is this 
procedure really specific?

The model is a Technics SL-B2. (I know I should really be worried 
about proper balance with a clunker like that)  It has an S-arm, 
with two weights (one big, one small) opposite the cartridge.

As far as I can remember, the big weight is adjusted until the arm 
just balances, then the anti-skate value is set to the reading of 
the smaller weight, which turns with the big one.  Then the smaller
weight is turned (independent of the big one) until its reading is zero.

I tried this, but when cued, the tone-arm drifts off to the right.
This is corrected when adding weight, but how far do I go? 

Please respond via E-mail, unless you think this would be beneficial
to others.  Thanks much.
					jd

Joseph B. Douds
University of Michigan
Electrical & Computer Engineering

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