AnalogMagik

Like many others, we’ve recently been excited about the renewed interest in our space program. Watching spacecraft bullseye their targets more than a quarter of a million miles away from earth is nearly unfathomable. Nearly as impressive are the hundreds of thousands of man hours that go into spacecraft development, deployment, calculations, training, and programming. All of these disciplines factor into what’s called Orbital Mechanics—the motions of artificial satellites and space vehicles. Every preparation and calculation is critical, being that after a craft is launched there is very little opportunity for adjustment. If everything isn’t just perfect, these craft won’t hit their intended targets, missing their mission’s goal by millions of miles, essentially becoming very expensive “space junk.”

AnalogMagik’s distortion analyzer software has visual feedback for every adjustment to guide you through a systematic and repeatable setup procedure to accurately retrieve the finest details from your favorite music in your record collection. AnalogMagik’s software shows the accuracy of each set-up parameter and provides visual feedback to make micro-corrections and achieve exacting results, shepherding you through speed control (wow and flutter), azimuth set up, vertical tracking angle, anti-skating adjustments, vertical tracking force, and channel balance, just to name a few. Cartridge alignment in particular requires making tiny adjustments that all depend on each other much like spacecraft trajectory calculations: if just one thing is off, then everything is off.

Comprised of a pair of high-quality vinyl records and their accompanying software, AnalogMagik works with a high-quality USB phono sound card, a Windows-based computer, and a turntable setup protractor to visually guide you through every step of turntable and cartridge’s alignment. There are even instructional videos to guide you through the setup of your turntable’s arm and motor speed.