THORENS TD 2030 - Manual (Page 28)

You can now mount and adjust your pickup cartridge ac-
cording to the instructions provided with the pickup or
with the tonearm.
In the following chapters you’ll find some comprehensive
hints and advise concerning the correct mounting of Tho-
rens tonearms. They may accordingly be used for mount-
ing foreign tonearms as well, yet if in doubt you should
in any case resort to the original instructions provided by
the manufacturer of the tonearm. Special hints about the
configuration of the Thorens tonearms TP 250 and TP 300
are to be found on page 31-32 of this manual.
Hint: If you happen to have acquired this record player as a
complete system, i.e. with tonearm and pickup cartridge,
there are no adjustments necessary because everything
has already been carried out for you in the Thorens fac-
tory. Only the tracking force needs to be adjusted.
Mount the pickup cartridge to the slots in the tonearm’s
headshell. While doing this basic work it is recommended
to leave the stylus guard attached to the cartridge in order
to avoid damaging of the delicate stylus and cantilever.
Thorens tonearms will accept any pickup cartridge with
the standard fixing hole distance of 12.5 mm (1/2 ”).
Carefully and with the help of tweezers the four colour-
coded litz wires coming from the tonearm’s headshell are
attached to the respective pins (identical colours) at the
rear face of the cartridge.
R
G
L
G
For the time being do not tighten the headshell screws.
Fine-adjusting and fixing the cartridge is done after having
determined the final tone arm height.
Hint: If Grado pickup cartridges are going to be employed
it is recommended to fix the cartridge with the screws
“upside down”. This means that the screws are inser-
ted from underneath through the holes of cartridge and
headshell whereby the nuts are to fix the screws on top of
the headshell.
right channel, red (signal)
right channel, green (ground)
left channel, white (signal)
left channel, blue (ground)
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