I use a lifter made in Canada called the Trulift and its very well made and works and looks good. The owner provides great support .It comes in a number of different heights and models based on your TT
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I put the same question to MoFi and this is what they said about the belt and other maintenance .I had recently purchased the LP#9 stylus cleaner and there bearing grease and asked them a number of questions . They have a bad habit of sending out material with no information on its use , or confusing instructions .
I had no idea! How?
There's a set screw on the collar that holds the tonearm assembly in place. Facing the table, if you look on the right side of the collar you'll see it. Loosen the hex screw, BUT HOLD THE TONEARM ASSEMBLY OR IT WILL DROP STRAIGNT DOWN!
Roger that! Yeah, what you're saying does make sense - when I was using the protractor installing the new cart I did notice the arm won't turn further than a certain point (the protractor had the overhang setting printed past the center hole which got me a bit flustered
)I have attached a page from the MoFi manual where they show the set screw on the collar that sits on the deck .So just to be very clear by the tonearm assembly you mean everything attached to the vertical round support that runs through the collar . You are raising or lowering the round vertical support and everything attached to it . I assume the set screw tightens through the collar against the round support . I have never done this before so may be a bit anal in understanding what to adjustThere's a set screw on the collar that holds the tonearm assembly in place. Facing the table, if you look on the right side of the collar you'll see it. Loosen the hex screw, BUT HOLD THE TONEARM ASSEMBLY OR IT WILL DROP STRAIGNT DOWN!
Turn the tonearm assembly counter clockwise a little bit and tighten. Swing the tonearm to the spindle and see where it stops, adjust as needed
This is also how you adjust your VTA.
That was very cool of you to do. I'll print this out and bring to my Tech this weekend. He probably knows all this, but won't hurt to give him. He's mounting an Ortofon Black LVB on the Ultradeck for me. I'm nervous as hell about it since the LVB is 22 compliance and tonearm is 25 g, but he's telling me not to worry. Also, I phoned Music Direct and they also said it can be properly made to work and "sing like a bird"; so guess I just have to have faith now.
I second @Anthonyl, everything is correct. But be careful when loosening the screw, since it's the only thing that holds the tonearm support column in place. Hold the tonearm base firmly in the process, and then gently lower/raise it. Otherwise, you'll mess up the VTA set by MoFi and will spend quite a bit of time adjusting it back to the proper setting. I've been there, it's a rabbit hole
If fact, if you don't already have it, before doing anything I would first get a VTA gauge on Amazon to see the angle of the tonearm set by MoFi. This way you can always re-adjust VTA to set it back to their suggested angle. That's why many users prefer decks like Technics with large VTA dials that allow you to incrementally change the VTA and after get back to what it was before. Ultradeck unfortunately, is not one of those...Thanks will get a VTA gauge as I have been using a lined heavy gauged paper card , but its very hard to eye ball . With the stylus resting on a record I had initially thought the arm was not parallel with the record surface , but then noticed that one end the lined stock paper was resting on the outside raised edge of the record so it was causing the arm to appear slightly higher in this area . Once I cut the lined card down in order to sit flat on the record , the lined appeared parallel .I second @Anthonyl, everything is correct. But be careful when loosening the screw, since it's the only thing that holds the tonearm support column in place. Hold the tonearm base firmly in the process, and then gently lower/raise it. Otherwise, you'll mess up the VTA set by MoFi and will spend quite a bit of time adjusting it back to the proper setting. I've been there, it's a rabbit hole
One last bit of "wisdom": I would also try using the same flat record to measure VTA on (since all records have slightly different thicknesses and some are warped.)
I understand your concern. I had the same concerns myself. The Grados I ran on my UD should not have been a good match, and yet they were.
Which resonance issues you're hearing? If I understand it correctly those are typically limited to very low frequency (sub 10hz) and cause needle to vibrate and mistrack. Considering MoFi arm is internally dampened, I'm not sure if LBV Black is that much off from MoFi carts to cause them (22 x 10e-6/dyne vs. 17 x 10e-6/dyne)
Which resonance issues you're hearing? If I understand it correctly those are typically limited to very low frequency (sub 10hz) and cause needle to vibrate and mistrack. Considering MoFi arm is internally dampened, I'm not sure if LBV Black is that much off from MoFi carts to cause them (22 x 10e-6/dyne vs. 17 x 10e-6/dyne)
But since you brought up MoFi MasterTracker, I have not a shred of doubt that on an Ultradeck it will sound at least as good as the Ortofon cart but probably better. I have never owned either cart but have enough experience with a few others to know that the heavy Ultradeck tonearm is not an easy match for anything except MoFi own MM carts. I won't be surprised if it was their business objective
Oh... In that case yeah, mount it and see how if you like it. Curious to hear back on what you find out.
