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SO, my Reed 2G tonearm was mounted and set up originally professionally.  I have an extra headshell which I have mounted a new cartridge on...the headshells allow the cartridge some feedom of position, changine the effective distance for teh tomearm mount to the stylus, as welll as ZENITH....I understand the importance of zenith, but how about the effective lentgh?

jw944ts
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jw944ts OP
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again, thank you all...analog reproduction, at its best is wonderful, BUT a "comedy of errors",...do you hear them, really, or just chase the physics/measurements....gives some of us something to do...some just settle on getting close and enjoying what they have...whatever floats your boat, I guess

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jw944ts OP
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..though I would consider my system to be very nice, certainly no where near SOTA...but as I was enjoying my new rig, I sat thrre thinking how totally amazing analog reproduction was!!

lewm
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According to Intact Audio, and I trust him implicitly, the industry standard for zenith error is +/-5 degrees. Much smaller errors completely throw off alignment. Most of us live with that.

willy-t
206 posts
 

Get a Feickertb Universal protractor and forget about the rest 

Good luck

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