Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions

Mark, I'm glad to see you achieved similar results to what I did. This has to be the best money I ever spent on my analog front end. The difference is better than what most expensive upgrades will do.
This analog is good stuff!
Dan

After all this good press (and the nice photos of Dan_Ed's system on the MintLP website) I can't hold out any longer. I just emailed Yip for a protractor for our rig. Stay tuned...

Because right now I believe I just dialed in my cartridge beyond what the Feickert could ever do.

Congratulations. Do you hear a difference?

FWIW - for holding platters and protractors in place, I use that blue painters tape used to mask off edges and borders - works like a charm and easy to remove with no marks left.

I just re-read the first several messages in this thread - been a bit of journey since the last 10 days of June, eh. :)
 
Tim
 

I have one of Yip's Mint protractors coming as well in the post as we speak.

I am used the wally tractor on my old VPI JMW 12.5, however that is useless now that I have teh 12.7.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the mint goes vs the Graham Phantom jig alignment

Tim, sounds like you and your soundstage buddies need to do a comparison of several alignment protractors like the wally, mint, ken willis, db, freikert etc and publish it in soundstage.
Use your table/arm and someone else's. It would be interesting reading on the positives and minus's of each.

Tim
Initially when I first posted the question about the Feikert protractor I felt I needed an additional set up tool.
In addition to what the Feickert tool did, it also provided a strobe disk for precise speed setting.

My conclusion on the Freikert are this tool would be put to good use at an audio dealer.

Set up is fast, easy and close enough for all they care.

I once owned a Linn table from 1983 to 2001. Cartridge set up and fine tuning the suspension was done by a friend that did turntable set up as part of his living for many years.
I never really involved myself until now.

Overall I found setting up my own table arm and cartridge relatively easy, if you plan ahead and have " patience ".

Securing my platter I found using cabinet door bumpers to work supremely well, more so then tape.

We had a new kitchen installed acouple of years ago and the fellow that did the work gave me a pad of bumpers.
I thought at that time these nifty little things may come in handy for something down the road.

These particular bumpers come in a pad of perhaps a hundred or so. They are clear domed shape soft rubber that are self adhesive.
I used a pencil to ever so gently wedge 4 against the patter.

This securely locked the platter in place 100%.
Removing them after set up , I used a pencil to pry them off the deck. They left no marks.

The use of painters tape as Tim suggested to secure the Mint tractor is the way to go.

I have approximately 44 hours logged onto my table arm and cartridge, any meaningful changes in sonics I need to spend some time with my system.

We have overseas company visiting at the moment, yesterday my wife took them all shopping for the entire afternoon.
This was my window of opportunity to use the MintLp.