So I lied…

When I said it was the last post about setting up the new home theater system.

I didn't know how big of a pain setting up an entry-level audiophile turntable was going to be.

The directions were both badly written (e.g., referring to the same piece of hardware as a "scale", a "stub", and a "prong") and badly illustrated (the only picture was a top view, so identifying anything sticking up from the turntable was difficult). They started from the point of view that you knew what you were trying to do, which in my case was true only in a very general sense. And there was at least one place where they were actively wrong (telling you to turn the counterweight counterclockwise when it should have been clockwise).

I found two things that helped a lot:

• Putting a strong light on the area made it a lot easier to put the small loop in the very thin monofilament nylon thread that held the antiskating weight over the stub.
• Reading this advice was helpful in figuring out what the adjustments were doing.

In any case, once I finally got the Cartridge Downforce Adjustment correct, the antiskating part worked much better than I would have guessed from what that tonearm was trying to do when it was flying all over the place with the wrong weight on the end.

I'm writing this in the hope that if someone else tries to set up a Pro-Ject Debut III turntable and gets as frustrated as I was, google will show them this page and they will see that there is hope.

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