Neoteck Digital Turntable Stylus Force Scale Gauge 0.01g Blue LCD Backlight for Tonearm Phono Cartridge

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Product Specifications

For MM/MC/MI and Piezoelectric Acoustical Pickup, Nonmagnetic, No Magnetic Field Adhesivity, Reading Reliable
High Precision and Accurate Stylus Gauge for Accurate Stylus Force Adjustment
Accurate Stylus Force is Important for Ensuring the Playback Result and Life of Your Valuable Records and Cartidge
Blue Backlight Display with High-quality Stainless Scale, Packaged with Superior Leather Sheath for Good Protection
Comes with One Weight and Two Button Batteries, Enables You Longtime Standby

Product Description

Color:Black All Neoteck Product Comes With 18 Months US Base Warranty

Feature: For MM/MC/MI and piezoelectric acoustical pickup, nonmagnetic, no magnetic field adhesivity, reading reliable High precision and accurate stylus gauge for accurate stylus force adjustment Accurate stylus force is important for ensuring the playback result and life of your valuable records and cartidge. Too high stylus force results in shortened record/stylus life while too low stylus force result in easy mistracking and both of the cases with come into poor audio performance

Specification: Capacity: 0-5.00g ( display 3 digit ) Graduation: 0.01g- highly sensitive Dimensions: 96 x 43 x 20 mm Power: 2 x 1.5V lithium cell Ag12 (included) Easy to operate, automatic turn-off after 2 minutes’ inactivity Stainless steel weighing area - nonmagnetic Color:black

Package included: 1 x Digital Cartridge Stylus Tracking Force Scale Gauge 0.01g 1 x calibration weight 2 x 1.5V lithium cell Ag12 1 x Leatherette protective case

Product Reviews

Good product, caring seller

The scale is easy to use. Turn it on, let it automatically set its tare weight to zero, then carefully lower the stylus onto the scale to measure downward force. It’s just that easy. The scale seems to be accurate to within .02 grams (see picture), and I am now confident my turntables are now tracking correctly, esp. my new/used Technics table, which has an older Stanton cartridge that was originally set too heavy, DJ style.I noticed evidence that the seller cares about customer satisfaction. The scale came with two uncoated batteries packaged in separate baggies to prevent discharge (as opposed to coated batteries - something complained about in previous reviews when the coating interfered with the batteries’ function); this means the seller became aware of the problem and made an adjustment. And the seller emailed me on the day of delivery to check in with me; this means the seller followed the shipment closely, noted delivery date and time, and cared enough about my response to pro-actively open a line of communication with me. I am impressed by this.My only complaint is a small one: that the scale does not return to zero when I remove the stylus. It settles in at a reading of .4 grams when I remove the stylus. So if I want to remeasure the tracking force, I have to turn the scale off and on again to get it back to zero. But that is a minor complaint and is completely outweighed by the confidence I feel that my styli are now tracking with the correct force.I recommend this product and this seller.

Scale itself works fine, good value for money. Excellent customer care.

I’m updating my original review, in light of new information. I originally used an old digital scale which was not as precise as this one (to the tenth of a gram) to adjust my tracking pressure… I’d gotten a lot of conflicting readings between the two scales, but it’s come to my attention that my other scale is miscalibrated in such a way as to have been giving me faulty readings (between 3-4 tenths of a gram too light) for years, causing my vtf to be set a bit too high.. Sounded good, but noticeable issues with cantilever bend, compliance issues on warped records etc… So I’ve decided to trust this scale. The scale itself seems to be well built and measures with precision to the hundredth of a gram. It is also accurate to within a few hundredths as well, given various test objects. This is great, particularly for the money. I am docking one star, as the measuring area in which you’d put the stylus is not exactly straight. The height of the metal measuring tab differs from 4mm to 6 from one side to the other. I may have gotten a defective one. In fact, and this speaks to their customer service as a group, Neoteck reached out to me after having posted my last review to ask if there was anything they could do to fix the problem. At the time, I was convinced I would just continue use my other scale and i was only out 12 bucks or so so I didn’t respond, but I appreciate that they were willing to swap items even offering a refund. That sort of forthright customer care is rare these days. In practice, the uneven measuring tab is only slightly worrying though, as the dead center appears to be exactly 5mm (so that I remove my mat and measure the stylus and it’s right about where it would be for general playback. Also, it doesn’t seem to affect the measurement wherever on the tab you drop the weight. The results are the same, the only concern for me is getting an appropriate height from my platter. Overall, money well spent. If you need an inexpensive vtf scale, doo business with these guys, you won’t regret it.

Easy to set up and extremely easy to use

The unit arrived on the date promised. Easy to set up and extremely easy to use. If you’re a novice you might have to take a couple of minutes to figure out how to place this on the platter to compensate for its depth such as removing the mat and how to orient the scale so that only the stylus touches it and not the cartridge body. As with many tone arm counterweights, mine needed to be adjusted for the proper pressure despite the markings on the counterweight. The difference between the counterweight’s markings and this scale’s readings wasn’t significant enough to notice any sonic improvements, I just like having the peace of mind to know just how much pressure I am putting on the cantilever.

Great after calibration setup

When you finally get it calibrated (by direction) it works well. There was no information about battery placement, but because my key fob has the same set up I knew to put negative down, one on top of the other. The problem started when I set the scale on a flat surface and waited for it to go to zero and it never did. After a half dozen tries I finally caught it at zero to start the setup procedure by setting the 5 gram weight on it when blinking. Ten minutes later I realized this isn’t working. I went through this procedure two more times until the blink stop and it was set on zero. After that it has worked every time. The instructions are confusing when they shouldn’t be, but it is cheap and it does work. If the problem hadn’t happened, then it would have received a 5 star.

Should be good to go then

I have some 1 gram weights I used to check the scale, it is perfectly accurate up to 5 grams. Surprising given the price.It does an auto-calibration when you turn it on, so have it placed where you want it before turning it on. It should read 0 as long as it wasn’t bumped or moved. Should be good to go then. You can check it with the included 5 gram weight as well.I do believe it’s important to sit the stylus in the black dot at the center of the scale. If I moved mine around the reading changed. Same with the test weights, if you put them anywhere but dead center it doesn’t show the correct weight.

Worked well, except for batteries.

Works well but take out the batteries. I used it once a week later they were dead.

Simple To Use, Accurate and will Save your Stylus and Records

This inexpensive, handy little device just saved the Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge/stylus installed on my Rega P2 TT.

Five Stars

Awesome item, helped me fine tune my new turntable. Hats off for a great product!

Affordable & easy to use.

Quality product at a very reasonable price. Easy to use & do exactly what it was designed for, me & my dad managed to set the proper tracking force on his old used Lenco in a…

Great produt

I had bought a new TT and adjusted by manufacturer sugestion, was off by .02 so not bad! However stil some skipping with new albums, this works great. Very simple to use.

Five Stars

Calibration was correct right out of the box

works very nice and accurate

Tested with 1g 2g 3g was within +/- .01g on each.

Must be defective–it gets to about 1. 6 and …

Must be defective–it gets to about 1.6 and I get a notification on screen that says full. Instructions woefully inadequate I want my money back or one that works–instructions do…