This adjustment is NOT to be carried out during play! You can use your Allen key and it�s position relative to the four screw heads holding the top plate of the armbase as a gauge/reminder how far you�ve turned it. One full turn alters the VTA by 0.7mm. 4.5) Antiskating To compensate for the skatingforce turn the antiskating-adjustment-disc (h) counterclockwise to increase force (initially, several turns might be required!) and clockwise to reduce it. A good compromise will be achieved once mistracking occurs in both channels simultaneously while playing the tracking ability test tracks on the ORTOFON test record (0002 or 0003). In case you have no access to any such test record just put the diamond on the space between the leadout grooves (or a "blank" record, i.e. Cardas sweeper record) and adjust antiskating until the arm/cartridge combo wanders slowly towards the center of the record. From then on, use your ears... 4.6) Adjusting the gap between the magnets With a decent light source placed behind your record player it is easy to make out (and control) the gap between the magnets which facilitates friction-free movement of the tonearm. The distance between the magnets determines the effectiveness of damping both tonearm/cartridge resonance and "parasitic" energy, generated by the cartridge or the turntable. The smaller the gap the higher the damping and vice versa. The gap between the magnets is altered by first inserting a 1.5mm Allen key into the set screw (i) , sitting in the middle of disc (h). You then hold the Allen key steady while turning the disc clockwise to widen the gap or counterclockwise to close it. This sounds a lot more difficult than what it is.. The gap should be at least 0.3mm wide, enough to allow for a common business card to be slid in without to much resistance. If the magnets were to touch each other during play the resulting friction would cause the cartridge to skip. The suspension thread used has an extremely high tensile strength, a very hard surface and will not deteriorate over time. It does stretch (break in) though over a period of two weeks max. (usually, it takes three days only). Once it has set, only under extreme conditions (very high temperatures + high humidity) can the thread exhibit a tendency to "give" a little more. So check the gap after a summer thunder storm (no more stretching after three of those). 4.7) Silicon damping or not The arm features the option to use silicon oil (i.e.SME2013) to dampen the tonearm resonance � predominantly in the axis of the armwand � resulting in a reduction of the "wiggliness" commonly associated with unipivot tonearms. This has almost no bearing(pun intended) on the tonearm/cartridge resonance whicht is a function of the eff. mass of the arm, the compliance of the cartridge and it�s
