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Cadenza Bronze on a Fatboy

I have a question about how close the bottom of my Ortofon Cadenza Bronze is to the surface of the record. I’m using a VPI prime signature with the fatboy gimbal arm. I have used a Wally reference jig to perfectly set the arm level to the platter. After mounting the cartridge there is barely a gap between the record surface and the cartridge body. Is this normal? It’s not rubbing. 

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dogberry
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Here's a photo of my Cadenza Bronze when I started to align it. The protractor is set to measure the cantilever angle, and you can tell the back of the cartridge needs to drop a bit more for the SRA to be right. My later pics were all zoomed in on the stylus so you don't see the cartridge.

Yes, it does ride very low.

 

dogberry
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Following a procedure I saw on YT (by Ortofon), I get the cantilever roughly right as a way of getting the SRA in the ballpark. Then I can do the more fiddly photos of the stylus itself to get that adjusted as close to 92 as I can. Then I go and change it all after listening to it!

dogberry
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I'm no Porsche owner, but I can say that my Kontrapunkt C, Cadenza Bronze and Cadenza Mono don't hit any records. Sure, I flatten really warped records with a well-known heating device. The only cartridge that really has an issue with warped records is the one that will never be prised from my cold, dead hands, the London Decca Reference.

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