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Looking for expert turntable setup guru

I am looking for an expert turntable setup guru.

I have contacted more than ten dealers and other shops up to one hundred miles away.  Not a single one has shown any experience of performing the install.

Turntable is set up and working well. I need support to remove and install van den Hul cartridge.  I am in the Washington DC area. I prefer someone to do it onsite.

Ref:    Turntable Oracle Delphi, Tonearm Eminent Technology ET-2, van den Hul cartridge.

dcaudio
hifiguy42
390 posts
 

I highly recommend Brian Walsh:

https://ttsetup.com/about/info-benefits

Not cheap, but he is a pro, and a genuinely good guy as well.

dcaudio OP
104 posts
 

Thanks for recommendation.  I spoke to Brian and he is truly a one of a kind. Would be a great person to perform turntable work for me.    Brian is based in Illinois.  I prefer not to drive 800 miles for the install of a cartridge.  

Any other names come to mind?

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whart
3,381 posts
 

Mike Trei, out of NYC. He may come to an area to do multiple set ups. 

I'm now in Texas, a bit far. So I do it myself. But Mike is solid. 

billstevenson
1,206 posts
 

Where are you located relative to Fairfax Station, VA?  The reason I ask is that I will be there for the annual family gathering for Thanksgiving and would be happy to help you if you are reasonably close by.  I do not have all my set up stuff with me, but as luck would have it I do have AnalogMagik with me so we can check everything.  Frankly not much is needed for the ET2 as it is one of the easiest tonearms to set up ever made.  I assume you have the air pump all sorted.  All that you need are tools to mount the cartridge and a scale to set VTF.  I set up turntables all the time, have been doing it since I was a college student in Seattle in the 1970s.  I do this at no charge, it is just my hobby.

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