Analog Corner

Hi

What caught my eyes is the bulleye spirit level installed at the top of the tonearm support column. This feature is crucial to ensure the contactless support bathing in a bath of magnetic fluid is perfectly balanced with the turntable/cartridge as a whole unit.

That said, I do not see any similar level indicator installed for the headshell which is DETACHABLE from the tonearm tube !!!! This will be another must to ensure the detached headshell/cartridge once screwed back onto the tonearm tube still maintain the same balance without any offset & overhang issues.

Is it a design overlook？ This is not a cheap tonearm, my friend !

FYI, I very frequently check up the proper tracking of my TT/tonearm/cartridge with placing momentarily a small featherlight bulleye spirit lever on the top of the headshell/cartridge while playing a LP. The dead centering of the 'bulleye' inside the lever indicates perfect realtime DYNAMIC tracking of the record player - no offset & overhang problems.

AFTER such tracking test, I then proceed to anti-skaing test of the tonearm by spinning it on the grooveless track of my test record.

The bulleye lever only cost me 2 bucks from any hardware store. Yet it works bigtime for me, saving big bucks to acquire complex alignment tools.

Play vinyl smart, pals.

Jack L

The Player turntable is based on the Transrotor Max, plus the optional Eins power supply. It's not clear from this review why The Player costs more than 5x the price of the Max.