Skip to main content
Popular products
No suggestions.

Tracking Force ( Weight ) of Cartridges / Stylus : eBay Guides

Write a guide Guides by: dappletoft ( 36924Feedback score is 25,000 to 49,999)   Top 1000 Reviewer
6 out of 11 people found this guide helpful.
Guide viewed: 2284 times Tags: phono | stylus | force | tracking | gauge


Users of Vinyl are well aware of the importance of being able to accurately set their cartridge tracking down force.

Failure to do this can result in anything from degraded sonic performance, through to mis-tracking and even damage to the record and stylus.

In the 70's and 80's the only readily available method of setting the down-force has been the Shure Force Balance ( The SFG 2)

Shure SFG 2

Fine value for money, but suffering from only 0.1g resolution, somewhat fiddly set-up and a slightly non-optimum measurement height

Now Technology has come to the rescue in the form of Digital Gauges - highly stable and accurate Digital Scales
Digital Scales


Guide ID: 10000000004216418Guide created: 16/08/07 (updated 02/02/12)

 
Was this guide helpful? Report this guide

Ready to share your knowledge with others? Write a guide



Related Products

ION PROFILE LP Turntable
Pro-Ject DEBUT III Turntable
ION iTTUSB Turntable
Numark TT1650 Turntable
Marantz CD63 CD Player
Veho VSS-002W Speaker System
Denon TU-260LII Receiver