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Model 1
Instruction manual
Dear customer
Congratulations! You have purchased a tonearm that, in order to allow the most
accurate AND musical reproduction of your records, features a bearing that differs
from all other tonearms available. To take full advantage of this inherently superior
design even experienced "vinylists" should take the time to study this manual.
I hope you'll enjoy mounting and adjusting your tonearm as much as the following
rediscovery of your record collection.
1) Mounting the arm
Mounting the arm requires drilling a 6.5mm hole in your plinth or mounting board. The
exact location can be determined by placing the supplied template over the spindle
and rotating it until you have found a position that allows both free movement of your
arm and results in a resting position of your arm where the armwand is parallel to
your plinth.
In case you have misplaced the mounting template and wish to switch turntables you
could always derive the proper spindle – mounting hole distance by adding 5mm to
the spindle – vertical axis distance which is punched into the bottom of the tonearm
base.
It is not hypercritical to get this distance spot on since the effective lenght of your arm
can be altered by sliding the armwand forward or backwards relative to the upper
magnet assembly.
The following scematics will help you to identify the tonearm parts and set screws
necessary to properly align your arm and cartridge:
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Summary of Contents for Schroder Model 1
- Page 1 - tonearms - bras de lecture Model 1 Instruction manual Dear customer Congratulations! You have purchased a tonearm that, in order to allow the most accurate AND musical reproduction of your records, features a bearing that differs from all other tonearms available. To take full advantage of this inherently superior design even experienced “vinylists”...
- Page 2 a: M6-hole for tonearm mounting srew e: M4-armwand set srew f: VTA set srew g: VTA adjustment srew, raises or lowers the tonearm block h: Antiskating/damping adjustment disc i: M3-damping adjustment screw...
- Page 3 b: Headshell-screws c: Headshell mounting-screw e: Tonarmwand set-screw d: Counterweight set-screw j: Tonearmwand k: Counterweight The tonearm is to be screwed to the turntable plinth or mounting board using a non- magnetic(V2A, V4A, brass) M6-cylinderhead-screw (a) from below. Choose the length of the screw so that 8 –...
- Page 4 2) Dressing the tonearmwiring This tonearm comes standard with a cable that was chosen for it’s sonic and mechanical properties. The signal is carried in a single run from the cartridge clips to the headamp or phonostage omitting additional soldered connections.. Depending on your turntable the cable can be fixed to the plinth/armboard by means of a clamp to be screwed to the side of the plinth or utilizing a circular cable dressing base(provided upon request) which requires an additional 16mm hole.
- Page 5 4.2) Mounting your cartridge The cartridge can be mounted in the headshell using the supplied M2.5 non.magnetic stainless stell screws(b). You might prefer to first seperate the mounting plate from the armwand by unscrewing the M3connection-screw(c) . Usually it is sufficient to tighten the M2.5 screws well, but not excessively so.
- Page 6 Don’t forget to tighten the VTA-set screw(f) again. This adjustment is NOT to be carried out during play! 4.5) Antiskating To compensate for the skatingforce turn the antiskating-adjustment-disc(h) counterclockwise to increase force and clockwise to reduce it. A good compromise will be achieved once mistracking occurs in both channels simultaneously while playing the tracking ability test tracks on the ORTOFON test record(0002 or 0003).
- Page 7 5) The “finetuning” Everyone who has to mount cartridges frequently understands the importance of precisely adjusting an arm/cartridge combination to release it’s full potential. Overhang, azimuth, VTA, tracking force and, if featured, variable damping of the arm movement are all important parameters. The overhang adjustment was described already, nevertheless let me add that a single “perfect”...
- Page 8 frequency tracking ability. The appropriate tracks on the Shure TT115 test record are helpful to get closer to the optimal tracking force. The damping is , as already mentioned, a function of the distance between the magnets, or, more precisely, the flux density in the gap between the magnets. It is to be adjusted so that the lower registers will be reproduced with control and heft without loosing the resolution of high frequency fine detail and “air”.
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