What is cartridge overhang?
What is cartridge overhang?
The “overhang” is the pivot to spindle distance plus the amount the stylus literally “overhangs” beyond the spindle. Then carefully twist the cartridge in the head shell (loosen the screws slightly if necessary) until the cantilever (red line) is parallel to the hashmarks and the stylus is centered on the “X”.
How do you measure a turntable cartridge overhang?
If you measure the distance from the tonearm pivot (or know it otherwise) to the center of the platter and subtract it from the distance from the tonearm pivot to the stylus (effective length) the result is the overhang.
Is cartridge overhang important?
Overhang: As the stylus tracks across the record, it is important that the stylus remain tangent to the groove. Setting overhang we are aligning the cartridge to follow that ideal arc across the record. In a radial tracking tonearm, there are only a couple of points when it actually is tangent (null points).
How do you adjust a cartridge overhang?
With the mounting hardware loose enough to allow forward and backward movement of the cartridge in the headshell, position the cartridge to allow the stylus tip to rest on the protractor’s outer dot (the dot farthest from the center spindle). This will set the correct stylus overhang.
What does a misaligned cartridge sound like?
Re: Symptoms of bad cartridge alignment? Possible symptoms of poor alignment include poor bass reproduction, poor treble reproduction, change in sound quality as the arm/cartridge tracks across the record, sibilance, muffled or muddy sound, and poor tracking.
What does overhang mean on a tonearm cartridge?
Overhang: As the stylus tracks across the record, it is important that the stylus remain tangent to the groove. Setting overhang we are aligning the cartridge to follow that ideal arc across the record. In a radial tracking tonearm, there are only a couple of points when it actually is tangent (null points).
How do I Set my cartridge’s overhang adjustment?
Please either open the attachment and print it out, OR go to the following website and print out this free overhang gauge – instructions are fairly easy and on the print out itself – PLEASE note if you download the one with the metric grid at the bottom of the gauge, and make sure you have printed it out sized correctly.
What does the overhang on a stylus mean?
The “overhang” is the pivot to spindle distance plus the amount the stylus literally “overhangs” beyond the spindle. The arm’s “effective length” is the pivot to spindle distance plus the overhang. If your arm allows, you can actually move it so the tube rests on top…
How do you set overhang on a turntable?
A simple way to set overhang is to use an overhang gauge that has markings in millimetres (mm). Common stylus overhang distances are 15 mm (as is the case for our AT-LP1240-USB Turntable) and 16 mm (for our AT-LP120-USB turntable), but other lengths exist as well.