Stylus gauge recommendations ?

I have a Metrosound and a Shure, plus a digital one with two decimal points.

Digital is easier but all can work just fine. The last one is your ears.

The Riverstone is all you need (great design, good build quality, simple to use), and it's cheap: $32.79 on Amazon.

The Riverstone measures VTF very close to the level of a record. Important for many tonearms.

I use the Ortofon scale and really like it. I had the Riverstone but it gave me some trouble, I honestly forget what / how, but I chunked it a long time ago 😅

I have a bunch, none of the 900 dollar ones, I still have a Technics SH-50P1 strain gauge from 1973 that works, but analog dial, not 3 decimals deep. I have a few of the cheaper digital ones, I like the DS3 Ortofon. It has no dimple as I recall.

Believe it or not, some of the digital gauges benefit from warm up. It’s in the instructions of one. And I’d put a fresh battery in if you are trying to do a serious adjustment.

My experience- you’ll get different measurements with different locations on the platter, but within 10ths or 100ths is also academic to me and it is one part of a combination of factors in set up.