Quote Originally Posted by hifi_dave View Post
Having set up and adjusted tens of thousands of cartridges on various turntables with numerous arms, I must say that I have never lost sleep about these miniscule, inaudible adjustments which the golden ear brigade claim to hear. To date I have never had any customer complain to me that my set up is wrong, inaccurate or could even be improved.

Don't get me wrong, I always set up cartridges and arms to the best of my ability but all this faffing about adjusting by half a thou or 1/100 of a gram really does not make massive differences.

If you really want to drive yourself nuts you should take into account that records are cut with different parameters and setting up a cartridge and arm for one record doesn't necessarily make it correct for another record.
Hi Dave, I take your point. I thought that record height was an important factor to and would upset the stylus SRA setup greatly, however I have recently read that in a "on a 230mm arm one needs around 4mm change of arm height at the pivot to change the angle by 1 degree" which is quite a bit. So presumably if you set up the SRA to 92 degrees on a medium thickness record(140gm) then playing a ticker or thiner record will not affect the SRA that much? Obviously if you record collection is predominantly 180gm records you would set up for that possibly.