Technics 1200 - The Balancing Act

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Here's a way to properly balance your tone arm. Applying the correct weight will ensure good playback without destroying your records. I suggest you look at the instructions that came with your cartridge for proper weight settings.

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[kazywaz]

How do you determine what grams to turn the counterweight off the specs of your cartridge? Is it the weight of the cartridge or the tracking force? I have an old Dynavector that has 4.6 grams weight and its tracking force is 1.7 grams. Which is it?

[tuneup1200]

@kazywaz you set your tonearm weight to the tracking force of 1.7 grams

[remotewall]

this bloke just showed me a trick i have been trying to figure out on my own without much success. as usual i am amazed at all the negative comments i see here, and in lots of places on the internet, some of you people out there have high opinions of yourselves. he just helped me understand the tonearm on my stereo, you did not. so thank you for the video, and the rest of you learn to be civil to each other.

[tuneup1200]

@remotewall Thanks for the kind words. Have you noticed that the ones who have such negative feedback, you visit their site and, stangely enough, they have no knowledge to offer? How can this be? Aren't they the smart ones? It must really suck to be so smart living in a stupid world, but yet, not offer intelligence to help man-kind.

That's right, they are too busy designing rockets........Cheers!

[tuneup1200]

There is a good chance that your tone arm is damaged. See my videos on Tone Arm Trouble.

[icansolvetheproblem]

Love your videos. The only thing that would be nice to include is to turn the anti-skate to zero when you zero out the tonearm.  Then after you set the weight, turn the anti-skate to the same amount as the weight. Otherwise, great series. Thanks!

[tuneup1200]

@icansolvetheproblem you're absolutely right. I did forget to mention to turn the anti-skate to zero during this process. Sometimes we forget to preach what we practice.

[william2000xl]

0:11 i cant stop laughing

[DjVaze]

This is correct for playing records or maybe mixing BUT for turntablism this set up does not work trust me.

[anxiovert]

There are better videos on how to properly adjust the tone arm than this one. This guy has the principle, but was in a hurry or something. You have to actually get down and look at it at the tone arm level. Not just by standing in front of it and 'feeling it'

[DONDIVA1969]

Turntables is gay

[outlawcountryman]

I just bought a decently high quality vintage 70's pioneer turntable, even though i have hundreds of album this is my first high quality record player... i was totally unsure how to weight my tonearm though, thank you very much for your very informative video. if i wouldn't have seen this i would be playing my records the wrong way.

[nuttyprofessor]

Setting up the proper tonearm height and weight depends on the cartridge make/model. For example, I use Stanton 505 V3s. I checked their website, it said to set the height at 1 and the tracking weight between 2-5 grams, assuming you aren't using the screw-in headshell weights. If you are using them, set the tonearm height to 2. As for anti-skating, I'd leave it at 0 if you will be backcueing and scratching. You set the anti-skate to same weight if you are just going to playback your vinyl.

[96bpmMKS]

100% fail

[4evaclapham]

Sloppy !! you do not just get the tonearm to "float weightlessly" you have to get down on your knees, and looking from the right hand side of the turntable, make sure the tonearm is floating completely level, horizontally !! the way this idiot just flicks the tonearm with his finger is lazy and hit and miss

[HitchHikersBlues]

@tuneup1200

Cool vid man...Simple and very effective...thanks!

Love the 1200 MK2's : )

[everyDUDElikesPUSSY]

Those tables are legends in my book [: