Proper angle for reproducer
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Proper angle for reproducer
Hello all, I purchased a Columbia Harmony portable phonograph this past weekend. I remove the reproducer just to make sure it was and good playing condition and I didn’t realize that there’s no marker or any hole in the tonearm to keep the proper angle of the reproducer. What would be the proper angle for a phonograph such as this? I may have to try and mark a position on the tone arm so I don’t have to keep on measuring the proper angle for this reproducer.
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Re: Proper angle for reproducer
An angle of 60 degrees was usually recommended. With a small triangular piece of card you can make your own needle angle gauge.
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Re: Proper angle for reproducer
Just twist it until the needle hits the center of the spindle...
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife