Mission accomplished.

I bunged the Denon onto the tecnoarm and took a wild guess at alignment. Then I measured it with my protractor and found I had it absolutely bang on - perfect!

Had to keep reassuring myself that 2.6 g really is a suitable tracking weight for a cartridge and not merely a typo!

Anyway, all's well.

First impressions:

(Context: my Jericho horns still don't have any tweeters, so I'm missing out on pretty much everything above 12KHz!)

Nice.

Bass is powerful and plentiful with a nice bounce to it.

Mids are clear and clean, if a little recessed in comparison to the OC9, but plenty of tweaking of arm height, tracking weight etc to go yet, so who knows what might change...

It all sounds very natural and believable. Perhaps a bit less detail than the OC9 (or it could be a simple case of these being less sparkle in the top end).

Very impressed so far.

I really must get those tweeters sorted though - I mean, I really should have bought those first, but I needed a new cartridge and this one just called out to me from the classifeds. What else could I do? . It's all lacking a little, er, sparkle at the moment. But what the heck - I'm 41, so my high frequency hearing is probably history anyway .

Thus far, the optimum arm height appears to be armtube absolutely parallel to the LP.

I'm never sure where to set the anti skate on a Rega/Tecnoarm, so have set it at just over half the tracking weight (I can never hear much difference anyway....).

Plenty more fiddling, fussing and all round anorakish behaviour to follow .

Cheers

Martin