I've spent the last 20 minutes fiddling with the alignment of my cartridge and have now settled on a spot 2 mm forward from the previous spot. 2 mm! That's like 8 feet in golf. I don't know how I got as close as I did at the previous position, but I was hearing a tiny of bit of distortion in the first track of some LPs. I just had to try to figure it out. So far so good.

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