Attention: The following steps have to be carried out with utmost care. As the tone arm mechanism is very sensitive, you should never handle any parts of the tone arm with too much force.

Please be extremely careful with the cartridge and in particular with the stylus. Avoid touching the stylus at all. Defective styluses must be exchanged immediately as they worsen the playback quality and can damage the record.

Adjusting the Tone Arm Balance

Before adjusting the stylus force, the tone arm balance needs to be adjusted.

Please proceed as follows:

• Set the anti-skate control dial (17) to 0.
• Remove the stylus cover of the cartridge (fig. 6).
• Unlock the tone arm lock (12) by sliding the locking lever to the right.
• Adjust the tone arm counterweight (7) by turning it until the tone arm hovers horizontally and stops tilting upwards or downwards by itself.

Attention: Please do this very carefully and make sure that neither the cartridge nor the stylus bump into the platter or the turntable body and get damaged. While turning the counterweight, make sure to hold the tone arm with the other hand.

 

Adjusting the Stylus Force

After balancing the tone arm, you should now adjust the stylus force.

Please proceed as follows:

• Turn the stylus force adjustment dial (8) at the front end of the counterweight unit its ‘0’ mark is centric with the center line of the tone arm.
  
  Please make sure to only turn the adjustment dial itself, not the counterweight.
   
• Now turn the counterweight (7) together with the adjustment dial (8) towards the platter until the desired value on the dial (stylus force in grams) matches the center line on top of the tone arm.
  Type art.no. 149 700/149 700C: Recommended stylus force of the supplied cartridge Audio Technica AT 95E: 2.0g Type art.no. 149 701/149 701C: Please check the recommended stylus force in the technical specifications of the cartridge of your choice.

Adjusting the Anti-Skate

When playing a record, a force is generated that pulls the tone arm towards the center of the record. A correct anti-skate adjustment compensates that force.

Please proceed as follows:

• Turn the anti-skate control dial (17) to the same value as the stylus force. This automatically generates the correct anti-skate value.

Adjusting the Tone Arm Height

Type art.no. 149 700/149 700CC: The arm height has already been adjusted correctly for the pre-assembled cartridge and the use of the supplied felt mat.

Type art.no. 149 701/149 701C: Depending on the model of cartridge used, it might be necessary to adjust the height of the tone arm. Please proceed as follows:

• Unlock the height adjustment by turning the lock lever counter-clockwise.
• Put a record on the turntable, raise the tone arm lift with its cue lever and lead the tone arm towards the record.
• Without the stylus protector in place, carefully lower the tone arm lift by pulling the cue lever downwards until the stylus touches the record.
• Please carefully adjust tone arm height so that the tone arm is precisely horizontal and parallel to the record. To do this, simply turn the tone arm height adjustment dial at the tone arm base.

Attention: During the adjustment, you should lift the cartridge stylus up with the tone arm lift in order to avoid damage to the stylus.

• After having completed the adjustment, lock the height adjustment by turning the lock lever clockwise.

Adjusting the Arm Lift Height

When the arm lift is raised, the stylus tip should be approx. 10-15mm above the record. If an adjustment is necessary, please proceed as follows:

• Raise the tone arm lift by pushing the cue lever upwards and carefully guide the tone arm onto the tone arm rest.
• Adjust the height of the lift by turning the adjustment screw either counter-clockwise (increase lift height) or clockwise (decrease lift height). To do this, you need a small cross-slot screwdriver (not included).
  
  Important: During the adjustment, the tone arm lift needs to be gently pushed downwards.
   
• Double check the adjusted height by guiding the tone arm onto the raised lift above the record.