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Re: Denon DL-103 Phono Cartridge

Belyin,

I settled on a 2 gram setting to compensate for colder room temps as outlined in the 103's manual. The third band on the HI Fi News test disk is at a very high modulation level. I set the anti skate so the break up on the fourth band was even on both ends of the test pattern which will translate to the third band. If you use a tone arm with dynamically adjustable ant-skate simple listen for the mis-tracking on the low and high side and set in the middle.
It appears that the spherical needle generates less side thrust than an elliptical or line contact. Other cartridges with elliptical or line contact take more anti-skate on this arm. The scope and test pattern do not lie and are the correct tools to use.
The cartridge alignment band on the Hi Fi News record is very telling if the tone arm has a lot of movement in the headshell. The 3012 II has double pins on the headshell witch results in very good alignment.

Ron-C


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