Wally Tools to Offer a New Service.


They have not said how much they are going to charge for this new service yet but if you do not have your own microscope it would be of significant value and greatly assist in the set up of your cartridge.
A "new" parameter is discussed which they are calling "zenith." I have always called it "twist" but I suppose zenith sounds more....important.
Read all about it here, https://www.analogplanet.com/content/zenith-angle-correction-final-set-frontier
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Just to make this terminology a bit more complex, I was once informed that the azimuth adjustment on a triplanar tonearm is flawed, because as you alter azimuth you are also altering zenith. So, I thought about how the triplanar azimuth adjustment works as I tried to understand “zenith”. TheTriplanar allows you to twist the arm tube back at the pivot point. With that information, I thought of an analogy with a light plane landing on a airstrip. If you watch airplanes, you can see that when they get caught by a gust of wind the tail section can sometimes lean to the left or right and down, with respect to the direction of the plane. That seems like what would happen to the stylus when adjusting azimuth with the triplanar tonearm, because of headshell offset angle. So I thought that was zenith, with respect to a phonograph cartridge. It’s an aircraft analogy I think. Pilots talk about “zenith”.