Vinyl Engine Baerwald Protractor

The rega baerwald protractor and the rega stevenson protractor are only of use with rega turntables equipped with rega tonearms.

Vinyl engine baerwald protractor.

Includes integral strobe disc in 3 versions 50hz 60hz and 300hz. An arc is designed for a given mounting distance and you re not supposed to use an arc protractor designed for a given mounting distance with another mounting distance. Do not use an arc protractor unless it matches your mounting distance exactly. Suitable for rega tonearms only mounted at exactly 222mm standard mounting distance.

Print on a3 sized paper. The vinyl engine also hosts a database of nearly every. Some of them are baerwald type one is loefgren and two are stevenson. When aligned the cartridge will sit further forward in the headshell angled slightly inwards.

Ok you say i knew baerwald protractors loefgren protractors what is that stevenson protractor. It may be useful too if your arms mounting distance. Free protractor to align your turntable cartridge. The angle formed by the two lines is equal to 15 with a tonearm mounted at 222 mm that angle should be 14 22 with a tonearm mounted at 215mm that angle should be 14 7 both results come from the rega baerwald and technics baerwald arc protractors drawing.

I did my best with the included protractor to align the cart properly but the technics doesn t quite use a baerwald alignment. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance. I ll assume here that the user is rotating the protractor during the first stage. Linn baerwald alignment protractor.

Arc protractors allow super fast accurate cartridge alignment. Now this simplicity has a price. I drew my first arc protractors in 2000 or 2001 and on every arc i ve designed i always insist you respect the given mounting distance. Linn baerwald alignment protractor.

Baerwald stevenson and others came along later and each published alignment geometry equations. Some of the protractors posted on the vinyl engine are specific some of them are generic. In a paper stevenson wrote in 1966 pickup arm design wireless world may and june 1966 it s somewhere on the internet stevenson shed a new light on cartridge aligment issues. Suitable for linn tonearms mounted at 211mm mounting distance.

Please note the alignment curve on an arc protractor is only suitable for the stated mounting distance. If you are already logged in to the forum and got this message when trying to download a file please check the faq for possible solutions. Rega baerwald alignment protractor v 2.