JohnyRocksville

Thank you so much for the tips! I have been going crazy aligning the cartridge, checking it over and over again. I ended of getting a thicker mat to raise the record up a little making the tone arm, cartridge and stylus all level. I think that did the trick.

So I have been listening to records for years on a old Panasonic record player that finally died. I recently “upgraded” to an Audio Technica LP120. With the new equipment I am trying to get my setup to sound as good as possible within a reasonable budget. With all of that being said I decided to try and align my stylus because I have been reading that it can make a difference with the sound quality. I downloaded a protractor from Vinyl Engine and aligned it using that and also double checked it with a protractor I ordered from Ortofon. It sounds good at the beginning of the record but gets a little distorted in later tracks. The alignment looks good on the protractor, but now I am worried that I have messed up the overhang. I am not sure where to go from here and there are a lot of terrible videos on YouTube that don’t explain it very well. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated