Cartridge Setup w/Geodisc by MoFi

PM me and I'll e-mail you an arc protractor for a tonearm with a 239 mm effective length. Verify that your Pivot-to-Spindle distance can be adjusted to 221.68 mm (if it's not already at that distance). Print it out on an overhead transparancy, buy a 5" craft mirror, and you'll have the tools you need until you want to purchase a MintLP protractor.

IMHO, you'd be better off learning to do it yourself. I once paid much more than that to get my table set up, and in retrospect, it was money wasted. If your "local stereo store" says they've set your VTA / VTF to their optimum values, how do you really know? Did they just level your tonearm and set your VTF to 90% of the maximum recommended value and call it a day? Did they pull out the osciloscope? If they set up your table, but you do not ensure your table it perfectly level (when sitting on whatever you set your table upon), you've thrown your $60 away. That money would buy you a quality steel ruler, a level, a Shure VTF scale, a small mirror - everything you need to set up this cartridge and many more.

Just my thoughts...

No flack...it's just that once you stop being intimitated by table setup, you'll have greater satisfaction with the medium.

Again...just my opinion.

If you don't do this setup yourself, you will always wonder if this "someone with more experience" did it right and if you're hearing everything that the cartridge has to offer.

Your fears and neuroses are normal - this is part of the journey. I have a feeling that even if you pay for someone to set up your table, you'll want to prove it yourself. Then you'll pull out 2 or 3 protractors and see that they don't match your current alignment. Then you'll go through the Stages of Mourning, and then go on a quest to determine the "correct" alignment and why these different protractors with identical approaches do not agree. So then you'll decide that turntable setup can't be *that* difficult, so you decide to learn how to create your own protractor. Etc...

Oh...are we talking about you or me?

Anyways, don't hesitate to reach out (either through the forum or directly) if you have questions during the process.