Dr.Feickert is the best ever to make alignment of everything. Still relatively cheap for such precision tool, top quality! You can not measure Pivote to Spindle distance with cheaper protractors! Also with Feickert you can choose between Baerwald, Lofgren and Stevenson |
I will repeat it again, especially for people who spend $1300 for a Protractor (???), that DR.FEICKERT cost only about 140 pounds + shipping and it has everything that we need for ANY tonearm on ANY turntable to make proper alignment of ANY cartridge with choosed geometry (Baerwald, Lofgren or Stevenson). Protractors without precision pivot to spingle measurements are useless! Paying $150-200 to an "expert" for alignment of one cartridge is very strange when for nearly the same amount anyone can have precision tool forever for all types of cartridges and tonearms. |
@cleeds I don’t like mirrored sufrace, i’ve tried some with white lines on mirror and it was awful, i think it was VdH protractor. I hate them. It’s absolutely no problem for me to make proper alignment of any cartridges with Dr.Feickert. I much prefer black surface with white lines on it, personally i don’t need any miror, it does not helps me at all. All i need is light and Dr.Feickert protractor. This protractor is universal for any tonearm, any turntable, any cartridge. And it has all 3 alignment method on it. |
GeoDisc and related products does not have a Pivot to Spindle Ruler, so i have NO IDEA how do you guys are using such products if you're gonna swap a tonearm ??? Maybe it's good for ONE fixed tonearm on a turntable, but devices like GeoDisc are useless if you have many tonearms. Precision pivot to spindle setting is the first step for any toneam setup. This is the reason why Dr.Feickert is always better. |
@mulveling Sorry, but i don't understand why do we need that GeoDisc for $49 if almost the same protractor comes for free with Analog Test LP for the same price? This is Analog Test LP and free protractor inside. There are 3 different method on that protractor, one of them is Linier Offset Technique with just one point for the stylus and a line accross the protractor to point it to the pivot of the arm (same as with GeoDisc). But for the same price ($49) we will get Test LP (to measure tonearm/cartridge resonance) and 2 additional alignment methods on that protractor. This is GeoDisc with just one alignment method for $49 And this is Dr.Feickert which is a much better, made of metal (not plastic) with many more features such as Stevenson, Baerwald, Lofgren methods, and more important - Precision Pivot to Spindle Ruler on it. All these for $185 (without VAT if you're not in UK or EU). |
@chayro well, i have 6 differen tonearms and pivot center point is easy to locale and to point Feickert right there. When i set up any cartridge i trust my eyes with Feickert protractor. At the moment i just don’t know of any better protractor for reasonable price built like that german Feickert. I think an error of a fraction of a mm can not be detected by my ears, so i don’t care. |
