Setting Vertical Tracking Force; Setting Horizontal Operation Point - Acoustical Systems AXIOM Owner's Manual

Correct balanced and aligned, the AXIOM will
display very little skating force at all. Many
audiophiles do prefer to go without anti-skating
compensation.
To minimize any negative effects implied by
anti-skating, the skating compensation on the
AXIOM is dynamic and can't be set too strong.
Please take the 1.27 mm Allen key and attend
the small Allen screw barely visible on the top
right backside of the AXIOM's bearing house.
Do screw it inwards, till there are only about
12 mm left to see outside the small metal block
holding the Allen screw.
Setting the vertical
tracking force
Please use a precise tracking force gauge.
If you do use a LOMC with strong magnets,
make sure that you know the derivation implied
by the cartridges magnets to the reading on the
stylus force gauge.
Setting the tracking force in hybrid mode:
Mount your cartridge and do set the main
counter weight and the trim weight thus, that
you arrive at about 75 to 80% of the desired or
recommended tracking force for your cartridge.
IMPORTANT
Make sure that you set minimum
70% of the total desired tracking
force by setting the counter weight(s).
To set the rest of the tracking force do use the
T-shaped Allen key or any Allen key with 2.5
metric standard. Set your stylus on the stylus
gauge and attend the invert Allen screw on top
of the main side cylinder next to the bearing
house.
While turning the screw you will note that the
small assembly on the rear side of the main
cylinder is moving upwards or downwards.
Increasing VTF:
Turn the Allen key ANTI-clockwise.
The tracking force reading will increase and
the small part cylinder carrying the magnetic
counter-assembly will move upwards.
Decreasing VTF:
Turn the Allen key clockwise.
The tracking force reading will decrease and
the small part cylinder carrying the magnetic
counter-assembly will move downwards.
Do set a tracking force at or barely above the
recommended minimum tracking force for your
cartridge.
Setting the horizontal
operation point
Now do loose the small knob-screw on the
inward pointing side of the AXIOM's large
VTA-tower.
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