ok, im confused... i dunno how to figure out this balancing tone arm and stylus thing... someone walk me through it please? and also what should i set the height to? i've got stanton 680's needles... thanks!!

First thing you need to do is to properly mount your cartridge (which you probably have already done). Then take the tonearm and hold it while turning the counterweight counter-clockwise until your tonearm floats in mid-air by itself, parallel to the platter. Then rotate the little black ring until it reads 0. Now you have a deck with zero gram tracking force. Turn the whole counterweight clockwise until you get to a desired weight setting - for home use and a Stanton 680 series, 3g would be a good starting point.

ok, i've got the tone arm floating.. now which little ring do you mean to rotate? the one on the end of the tonearm? the one for anti aliasing or the big black one for height?

There's two rings at the end of the tonearm: the small black one with numbers which shows you how many grams of tracking force you have (NOT the anti-skating one), and the counterweight itself (which is a silver chunk of metal with the abovementioned ring on the front end). Turn the counterweight so the black ring is at '3'. Then set anti-skate to 3 as well (if you scratch, set it to '0') - if the needle starts jumping out towards the edge of the record, decrease your anti-skate until it doesn't jump anymore. Set your height so that the little yellow or blue plastic part on the front of the cartridge (where the needle comes out) is parallel to the record - usually '1' for thin felt slipmats.

hey i've done it all, but whenever i play a record, the niddle skips accross the records and cant stay in the groove... this is actually the problem that forced me to post the thread in the first place... so what am doing wrong?

im using stantons str-80z. and i know that there has to be a weight adjustment but i cant seeem to find it anywhere? i want to put alittle less weight for mixxxing, and more weight whenim scratching..can anybody help me out??

thats the weight on the end of the tone arm... thats where u adjust it... now back to my problem, anyone help me out?

lol, never mind, i got it... thanks lars