Tonearm Setup; Mounting The Dust Cover; Setting The Anti-Skate Adjustment - ION TTUSB10 Quick Start Owner's Manual

TONEARM SETUP

1. Begin by rotating
the counterweight
counter-clockwise
until it is in the
complete forward
position (NOTE:
this is also the
maximum amount
of pressure that
can be applied to
the cartridge.)
2. Now there should
be a feeling of
weight and
resistance when
the head shell is
raised and
lowered. Begin
rotating the
counterweight
clockwise (away from the pivot point) until the weight and resistance feeling is gone. If done properly,
the tone arm will pivot with very little resistance back and forth indicating that there is exactly 0 grams
of stylus pressure.
3. With the counterweight in its new position further away from tone arm pivot point, grasp the scale ring
of the counter weight and rotate it until "0" is in the vertical position.
4. Finally, rotate the counterweight (and scale ring) counter-clockwise (towards the pivot point) until the
desired amount of weight is reached. If the scale rotates 360 degrees beyond the zero point, the new
scale ring reading should be added to 3.5.
*The included head shell and cartridge assembly requires a minimum of 3 grams and no more than 5
grams for optimum performance.

Setting the Anti-Skate Adjustment

In most cases, the Anti-Skate should be set to its minimum setting. Anti-Skate compensates for inward
tracking forces that occur with certain cartridges when the stylus nears the center of the record. If the
turntable is experiencing excessive skipping during back-cueing and scratching while nearing the center
spindle, try increasing the Anti-Skate in the increments indicated on the dial. Start by adding an increment of
1, test its performance, then increase it more, and so on.
IMPORTANT
Make sure that the felt slipmat is always placed on top of the platter while using the turntable. Failure to use
the slipmat may cause damage to your media as well as damage to the turntable.
Remove the plastic cartridge cover (needle cover) before operating the turntable.

MOUNTING THE DUST COVER

1. Attach the included dust cover mounts to the turntable.
2. Attach the dust cover to the mounts as shown in illustration on the left.
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