The SMARTractor Phono Alignment Tool

ACOUSTICAL SYSTEMS THE SMARTRACTOR PHONO ALIGNMENT TOOL
- Cartridge and tonearm optimal set-up

The SMARTractor is probably the finest, most intelligently designed tonearm alignment tool available. Typically German, it is beautifully made and robust, with really thoughtful provision of features that make accurately setting up a tonearm ridiculously easy. When you start finding direction with help of the laser printed lines and use the mirrored lines to ensue you have the correct eye/head position, you will surmise that any other template without mirrored lines is quite useless because you most probably will be wrong.

Read this review from the Audio Beat and understand why this is special and better than any alternative – http://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/smartractor.htm

The SMARTractor comes with 5 (five) tangential curves combined in 1 (one) template. The total of 5 tangential options of course includes the old audio phono standards set by Loefgren and Baerwald in the late 1930s and 1940s in both - IEC and DIN - norms.
* Loefgren A / Baerwald DIN

* Loefgren A / Baerwald IEC

* Loefgren B DIN

* Loefgren B IEC

* and the critically acclaimed UNI-DIN tangential curve —an all new tangential curve which is the latest calculation and the first one which does really take into account the special requirements and circumstances of a stereo stylus tracking a non linear stereo groove with increasing differences between the two groove walls.

● The SMARTractor’s template is made from 3mm (= same thickness as 180 gr LP) strong premium grade german XT mirrored acrylic supplied by Evonik.
● No-error-possible single-point alignment with 3mm deep parallax (for ALL helping lines) – an extreme precise, easy and fast alignment.
● Very easy-to-use with aa one-point fixed setting for every tangential curve.
● all alignment lines are cnc-laser cut hairlines.
● Incorporates real glass aluminum-frame magnifier with automatic focus jig for unrivaled precise magnified view during alignment.
● All 5 tangential alignments are based on true triangular positioning and thus are independent of effective length and thus suitable for ALL pivot tonearms, no matter what their effective length or mounting position.
● Furthermore, The SMARTractor comes with in-built direct mounting distance – P2S - measurement with 0.05mm accuracy.