Benz help

Bill, excuse me, I can understand Barry and Madonna, but you are not really slinging mud on Donnie, are you? I use a common deck of cards to adjust VTA. Arm parallel to the plinth doesn't mean much, though it may be a place to start, as it is the angle of the cantilever and the angle that the stylus meets the groove that matter.

Marty,
Donnie pi*sed me off when he left the family. I dumped him, The Archies, 1910 Fruitgum Company, and The Cowsills at the same time.

As I said my tip was only meant to be a starting point. The listener must find the optimal setting which undoubtedly varies with every tonearm/cartridge combination.

Now Donnie and Marie were cool. She was a little bit country, he was a little bit rock n' roll.

Very little.

LOL, very little indeed!

Here's the way I measure horizontal... I take a lined index card (3X5) and fold it in half so that I can lay it on the turntable like a teepee with the lines going horizontal. The lines are parallel and I eyeball my resting tonearm on a record with the folded card right next to and on the other side of the arm - closer to the spindle than the arm. I get way down making sure my eye is on the same plane as the tonearm and view how the arm lines up with the lines on the card.