Setting the Tone Arm on a Vinyl Turntable with a Concord Cart Cartridge

0:00 A few people have got hold of me recently via email asking me why

Alright, a few people have got hold of me recently via email asking me why... After they put a new cartridge on their tone arm, it's not going onto the record. It's not at the needle. The stylo isn't actually touching on the record and the arm itself is waving about in the air. I don't know if you can see that. All right, it's very simple. It's because the weight at the back has not been set correctly. All right, so the first thing to do is to make sure that you secure the arm of the turntable securely on its little rest. very simple the weight at the back if it's something like this the weight that can be moved just move that forward so the closer it is to the front of the tone arm the more weight there is at the front which means in turn

1:05 Cartridge

The tone arm at the front will start to have more weight at the front, which means it will dip down and not up. Now again you need to be very careful here because you don't want to do this in midair and hold the... If I now take the tonearm off the little rest... You can see now that that is gently leaning against my finger and there's a slight bit of pressure on my finger instead of having no pressure at all and the tone arm sort of dangling in mid-air. So, the only thing I would suggest you do is find out what cartridge you're using, go online and check out the recommended weight. For that cartridge, and that's the weight that will be on the needle itself, the styli, that in turn will hit the record. And the weights do vary depending on what type of cartridge you've got. But the beauty...

2:09 I hope that's been a help

All you have to do is make sure you've got Off the back you can unscrew that and then try from there. I hope that's been a help. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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