You should be able to adjust the height of the arm/headshell support..There should be a allen head screw at the base of the arm support.Just loosen the allen screw and reset ( raise ) the height of the support and retighten the allen screw to hold at the needed height.This will give you plenty of height once you manually bring the arm over the top of the record and will also prevent you from accidently hitting the record bringing the arm over the record surface.......Very simple......
Thorens TD147: raising tonearm
Hello,
Even though I have been a member of Audiogon for a long time I have never posted a message.
I have a mint Thorens TD147 Jubilee which has been in the box for several years and decided to make it part of another system on another floor at home. I installed a very low hours Ortofon MC30 MKII Super which was mounted on another arm.
I have followed Thorens instruction manual but I cannot raise the tonearm high enough to clear the bottom of the cartridge, the Ortofon runs very low, at about 2 or 3 mms from the surface of a record, sometimes it touches it.
This second system is comprised of a Klyne 6LX3.5X, Electrocompaniet AW-100 Anniversary power amp, Meridian 507 CD player and Aerial 10T speakers.
Am I using the wrong cartridge for the TD147 or am I overlooking something here?
Thank you very much in advance.
Orazio
Even though I have been a member of Audiogon for a long time I have never posted a message.
I have a mint Thorens TD147 Jubilee which has been in the box for several years and decided to make it part of another system on another floor at home. I installed a very low hours Ortofon MC30 MKII Super which was mounted on another arm.
I have followed Thorens instruction manual but I cannot raise the tonearm high enough to clear the bottom of the cartridge, the Ortofon runs very low, at about 2 or 3 mms from the surface of a record, sometimes it touches it.
This second system is comprised of a Klyne 6LX3.5X, Electrocompaniet AW-100 Anniversary power amp, Meridian 507 CD player and Aerial 10T speakers.
Am I using the wrong cartridge for the TD147 or am I overlooking something here?
Thank you very much in advance.
Orazio