I have not measured it, but suspect Grado wood bodied cartridges are just over 1mm too tall to get proper VTA on the kind of tonearms that come with a table and have no VTA adjustment.
What I mean is my old Dual always had my Grado Sonata almost but not quite parallel to the record, sort of heeling it.
Now on my Pioneer PL-L1000 the same thing. I had to take a small crow bar and lift up on part of the linear tonearm to get maximum height while using my free hand to tighten the height screw.
Oh, and I've read one should contact Grado should they ever misplace the screws that go with it, because those are a bastard size too.
Do I ask too much that there be some kind of standards?
On a positive note, surface noise has dropped to near zero and other gains across the board now that it's true parallel to the surface.
It should not be that hard, just saying.
What I mean is my old Dual always had my Grado Sonata almost but not quite parallel to the record, sort of heeling it.
Now on my Pioneer PL-L1000 the same thing. I had to take a small crow bar and lift up on part of the linear tonearm to get maximum height while using my free hand to tighten the height screw.
Oh, and I've read one should contact Grado should they ever misplace the screws that go with it, because those are a bastard size too.
Do I ask too much that there be some kind of standards?
On a positive note, surface noise has dropped to near zero and other gains across the board now that it's true parallel to the surface.
It should not be that hard, just saying.
