Hi Barry

1. Yes, the AT33PTG is setup exactly as it was before (1.85g tracking, dead horizontal for VTA) as I found these to be the optimum settings. The cueing is fiendish! It actually works on the stub arm, lifting it off the record using a mechanism that works underneath and along the main gantry. The gantry itself only moves in the horizontal plane. This is elegant and, unlike the Jelco, it does not drift when lowered making accurate cueing very easy.

2. Tracking force is achieved by spring from the control knob at the stub arm, having first balanced it out with the (small) counterweight. The second (big) counterweight at the back of the gantry is only there to keep even pressure on the horizontal ball race. Again, very clever.

Incidentally, I tried my most warped record last night, one that has either caused arms to jump or the warp to be very audible in the music. It not only played without breaking a sweat, the warp was inaudible! So its reputation for handling warps well because of the low mass stub arm is justified.