stanton str 8 80 ?

"On small arm" ? What are you talking about ?

Your Stanton turntable has a very short and straight arm with no offset angle at all.
This is very strange decision, despite the fact that this is a turntable for teenagers wanna be a djs. I’m sure you need a better turntable. Stanton turntable is BS and Tonearm Geometry is unknown, they don’t care because teenagers use it with a cartridges with Conical stylus. For a conical stylus it does’t matter, but for any good cartridge with at least Elliptical stylus this tonearm must be avoided!

With any normal tonearm you can damage your records only with worn out needle, the brand of the cartridge will not help in this situation. Make sure you’re using a brand new stylus or the stylus in perfect condition.

You'd better ask Stanton Tech about tonearm geometry, null points and cartridge alignment with this short straight tonearm with no offset angle. 

Stanton was a good company until its founder Walter O. Stanton retired and sold it in the 90's. Since that day so called Stanton Group is primary oriented on pro market, so everything they are making is for deejays, the only problem is that real deejays choose Technics (always). 

If you want to know the true, do not ask a person who's selling you something or who's working for the company. 

The main problem of that cheap turntable is unknown tonearm geometry. This is the first thing i would concern about if i were you. 

It’s funny to compare extremely expensive ViV Rigid Float tonearm (price tag is over $2k) to cheap as chips Stanton tonearm with price tag under $100. They are designed for two different audience, completely different.

ViV is for critical audiophiles with High-End turntables.

Stanton is for teenagers to play records at High School discoteque.

It might be OK for Spherical stylus tip which is the most forgiving to set up. Other companies like Vestax also designed turntables with straigh tonearm, but those turntables designed for skratchers as a tool to scratch records (special kind of performance). All they need is to avoid skipping of the conical needle across the record surface. If a manufacturer can make a turntable with more stable tonearm just for battle/scratch DJs then they could sell more turntables, because this is all they need, nobody cares about sound quality when it comes to a turntable designed for battle/scratch DJs. This is just a professional instrument, the main function is to keep the needle in the groove when people jump on the stage near the DJ while he’s scratchin’. I think this is the only reason why manufacturers like Stanton, Vestax designed turntables with straight tonearms (just for skratchers), they have a conventional pivoted tonearms for the rest of the DJs on their different models of cheap turntables.

But the rest of the DJs prefer Technics turntables with conventional pivoted tonearm. So manufacturers like Stanton, Vestax tried to make something different to say "this is better". Just marketing in competition with Technics for specific segment (battle/scratch djs) on the professional market.

Yes, i dislike Stanton Group products, but i like the Stanton Magnetics Inc produsts. Two different companies from two different eras. Not everyone clearly understand it. 

I'm just trying to put the things together: cheap DJ turnable, Short tonearm with unknown geometry, Bonded Conical styli .... all these things are a part of one chain that Stanton Group responsible for, this stuff made not for Audiophiles, not even for Hi-Fi home aplication, but for a scratch deejays/teenagers who can't even afford Technics for some reason. 

The OP said: " no dj thanks "
Not sure what does it mean, but this is a cheap DJ turntable and cheap dj tonearm for scratching. Maybe it's better to avoid it if he is concerning about it ? In his previous post he has mentioned DJ Craze signature cartridge released by Stanton Group. He's on the wrong path.  

A Hi-Fi turntable and Hi-Fi cartridge could be a better choice in this situation. 

I can't remember any Hi-Fi turntable with underhung tonearm with no offset angle on the headshell. 

Just sayin'