@ les-creative-edge
The True/Square design is fine and dandy if the stylus is perfectly aligned within the cartridge body, but good luck with that. This is why azimuth adjustment is vital to me. I can put on a test record and plug in my Fozgometer and quickly adjust azimuth to equally balance both channels in a minute or two. Now I do have a slight advantage, as my arm is a Reed 3P so I can adjust on the fly. If I was using another arm, it would be a more time consuming affair, but non the less, I would be able to get near perfect accuracy (if there really is such a thing) I too am a bit on the anal side! LOL
As for the VTA adjust, I must respectfully disagree. I can hear a difference on different thicknesses of vinyl, and insist on being able to compensate for this with VTA on the fly. I don't want to be inserting or removing shims for different albums.
Bye the way, good work with your DIY dust cover fix. I do not use a dust cover myself, but I did get a plexi-glass cover for my platter, and it extends over toward my tone arm,bends up, and then bends over to cover my tonearm (hope you can picture that) Obviously this goes on when the turntable is not being used. Well, guess what? When I put the Reed on my TT the VTA dlal on top of the column was too high!! had to drill a 1 inch hole in the plexi-glass so it could slip over the knob.
Gotta love this hobby!!
