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Great Experience with Feickert Protractor

After years of using other setup tools, I finally broke down and bought the Dr. Feickert Protractor.  I couldn't be happier. 

I highly recommend this unit for great design, construction, ease of use, and precision of setup.  I'm at the point in this hobby where I buy stuff and am not afraid to find that something makes no difference or the difference it makes is not to my liking.  The Feickert did not change the overall sonic character of my table/cart.  What it clearly did do was make imaging and soundstage more apparent (stand out) and it sounds like more information is coming through because I can hear more decay and faint sounds than before. 

If anyone is within driving distance of Chicagoland, I'd be happy to lend it out so others could benefit.  

Before the Feickert I was using Mobile Fidelity's Geo Disc and I had to sight the pivot point with an alignment bar on the Geo Disc.  I got pretty close (assuming the Feickert is more accurate), as I was within 2mm.  I'll rest assured knowing that I'm running things closer to perfect for sound quality and wear. 
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chakster
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... the Feickert protractor is very good specifically with P2S distances, not so good with cart alignment, the Smartractor although more expensive allows you to adjust long tonearms and the cartridge with better precision

I have aligned "12 inch tonearm with Dr. Feickert, absolutely no problem with that. 

Some people are referring to an old version of Dr. Feickert, but it was upgraded with the new version many years ago, it's precision protractor. 

If you vision is not good it's the only "problem" with Dr. Feickert protractor.   

I often see people overestimate the importance of alignment when they want to align their cartridge with micron accuracy that your ears can't detect anyway! 






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chakster
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Dr. Feickert from UK without VAT was cheaper for me, used sample is even cheaper. 

Not sure what do you expect from a protractor, but no not overestimate the importance of it. You cartridge can be aligned perfectly even with FREE protractor that comes with Hi-Fi NEWS TEST LP. 

I can't use mirror protractors, for my eyes it's better to see white lines on black surface and alight according to those lines than white lines on mirror, on the mirror you will see the line and reflection of this line, I hate those protractors with mirror, they are useless.  
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