Magnat MTT 990 Mode D'emploi page 16

TONE ARM ADJUSTMENT
Attention: The following steps have to be carried out with utmost care. As the tone arm mechanism is very sensitive, you should never
handle any parts of the tone arm with too much force.
Please be extremely careful with the cartridge and in particular with the stylus. Avoid touching the stylus at all. Defective styluses must
be exchanged immediately as they worsen the playback quality and can damage the record.
1. Adjusting the tone arm balance
Before adjusting the stylus force, the tone arm balance needs to be adjusted.
Please proceed as follows:
• Set the anti-skate control dial (17) to 0.
• Remove the stylus cover of the cartridge (fig. 6).
• Unlock the tone arm lock (12) by sliding the locking lever to the right.
• Adjust the tone arm counterweight (7) by turning it until the tone arm hovers horizontally and stops tilting upwards or downwards by itself.
Attention: Please do this very carefully and make sure that neither the cartridge nor the stylus bump into the platter or the turntable body
and get damaged. While turning the counterweight, make sure to hold the tone arm with the other hand.
2. Adjusting the stylus force
After balancing the tone arm, you should now adjust the stylus force.
Please proceed as follows:
• Turn the stylus force adjustment dial (8) at the front end of the counterweight unit its '0' mark is centric with the center line of the tone arm.
Please make sure to only turn the adjustment dial itself, not the counterweight.
• Now turn the counterweight (7) together with the adjustment dial (8) towards the platter until the desired value on the dial (stylus force in
grams) matches the center line on top of the tone arm.
Type art.no. 149 700/149 700C: Recommended stylus force of the supplied cartridge Audio Technica AT 95E: 2.0g
Type art.no. 149 701/149 701C: Please check the recommended stylus force in the technical specifications of the cartridge of your choice.
3. Adjusting the anti-skate
When playing a record, a force is generated that pulls the tone arm towards the center of the record. A correct anti-skate adjustment
compensates that force.
Please proceed as follows:
• Turn the anti-skate control dial (17) to the same value as the stylus force. This automatically generates the correct anti-skate value.
4. Adjusting the tone arm height
Type art.no. 149 700/149 700CC: The arm height has already been adjusted correctly for the pre-assembled cartridge and the use of the
supplied felt mat.
Type art.no. 149 701/149 701C: Depending on the model of cartridge used, it might be necessary to adjust the height of the tone arm. Please
proceed as follows:
• Unlock the height adjustment by turning the lock lever (18) counter-clockwise.
• Put a record on the turntable, raise the tone arm lift with its cue lever (16) and lead the tone arm towards the record.
• Without the stylus protector in place, carefully lower the tone arm lift by pulling the cue lever downwards (16) until the stylus touches the
record.
Fig. 8
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