Not sure how but you're going to have to figure out how to combat all of these spamming AI bots.

Good. Glad you had enough adjustment on the platform, I didn't even think about that portion of it.

The tone arm itself is less important it is the cartridge stylus rake that is important. With that said all things being equal the tone arm should be parallel or close to it when your cartridge is parallel as far as I am aware.

You are correct, that is the highest setting. the only other option is to put a larger bump on the cueing lever rest. I had to use a piece of metal and put heat shrink on mine to get it to lift higher. I'll post a photo for refference when I get home tonight.

You just need to raise your tone arm lift height that will allow you to solve your problem.

Looking forward to it as well.

I use mine to turn on and off the turntable every time I flip the record therefore it never stays on overnight.

This is from the email Mat sent me. "Hey Joel, You are correct! The 3DR looks like one of the limited special colors and the wire is Nordost Reference. That has an Effective Mass of 10.5g The metal ones both appear to be Discovery as it had the thinnest weive. Those both should have an effective of about 12.2g. The one with the Grey on the outside was when we had put the dampening on the outside rather then inside the arm tube. Hope that helps with a bit more insight on these arms and let me know if you have any additional questions. Mat

She is always on top of it I'm extremely glad to have her part of that community.

From Sherry Fraser on Facebook. "This is what you have. The two metal arm are the most recent version of the JMW 12 series with some slight variance due to their manufacturing run. You can tell by the headshell stamp “Classic” which is when VPI moved away from “dot” series nomenclature i.e. 12.6 etc., and the all stainless steel bearing bell. Each metal arm has the two piece ferrule system where the arm tube enters the bearing bell, which denotes the Signature version of the Classic. Both arms are wired with standard Discovery wire. The arm with the Classic 4 stamp, has a stainless steel arm tube (standard is aluminum) for increased effective mass. These are great metal tonearms - VPI’s best. The 3D printed arm is the JMW 12-3DR. The “R” = Reference which means it has a faux carbon fibre damping wrap and is wired with Nordost Reference wire (same wire as used in Fatboy). The arm also includes a piggy back weight on the main counterweight used for fine vtf tuning. Very desirable. I hope this helps." This is shared for the good of the community.