THORENS TD 160 HD - Manual (Page 30)

Mounting the Pickup Cartridge
You can now mount and adjust your pickup cartridge ac-
cording to the instructions provided with the pickup. Pro-
ceed with making all necessary alignments.
In the following you‘ll find some comprehensive instruc-
tions concerning the correct mounting of Thorens to-
nearms, which may accordingly be used for mounting for-
eign tonearms as well. However, if in doubt you should in
any case resort to the original instructions provided by the
manufacturer of the tonearm. Special hints concerning the
configuration of the Thorens tonearms TP 250 / TP 300
are to be found on page 33/34 of this manual.
HINT: if you happen to have acquired this record player as
a complete system, i.e. with tonearm and pickup, there
are no adjustments necessary because everything has al-
ready been carried out for you in the Thorens factory. Only
tracking force needs to be adjusted.
Mount the pickup cartridge to the slots in the tonearm’s
headshell. While doing this initial work it is recommended
to leave – if possible – the stylus guard attached to the
cartridge in order to avoid that the delicate stylus and can-
tilever are damaged while mounting the cartridge.
Thorens tonearms will accept any pickup cartridge with
standard fixing hole distance of 12.5 mm (1/2”).
Carefully and with the help of tweezers, the four colour-
coded fine litz wires coming from the tonearm‘s headshell
are attached to the respective pins with identical colour at
the rear side of the cartridge.
R
G
L
G
For the time being do not tighten the headshell screws.
One should be able to slide the cartridge smoothly back
and forth along the headshell slots. Fine-adjusting and fix-
ing the cartridge is done after having determined the final
tone arm height.
HINT: if pickups from Grado are going to be employed it
is recommended to fix the cartridge with the screws „up-
side down“. This means that the screws are inserted from
underneath through the cartridge holes and the headshell
slots.
right channel, red (signal)
right channel, green (ground)
left channel, white (signal)
left channel, blue (ground)
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