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What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable?

I can't believe after all these years, I am asking such a basic "analogue 101" question, but here it goes. I own a VPI turntable that has a "VTA on the fly" knob.  I thought the best VTA setting was for the arm to be 100% parallel to the record surface.  

However, based on some research, I am not so sure that is correct way to set the arm to achieve optimal VTA and correlatively, optimal SRA.  Not sure, ... but I think I have to raise the pivot side of the arm.

Any advice would be appreciated. 

Thanks.     
bifwynne

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oranda
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This article might be of interest to you: http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/vta_e.html

With full knowledge that it’s a controversial subject, I personally set SRA (being the more important angle to be concerned about) to about 92°, then adjust as per the suggestions that noromance mentioned. When either looking at VTA or SRA, know that a few degrees either way is not critical, after all, you aren’t going to reset your VTA each time you go from a 120g to 180g record.
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