Word: grado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading about all these fantastic intricacies is rather fascinating, and makes the literature of a couple of cartridges available at the moment both have easily understood discussions in their promotional material of some of these incredibly complicated problems that beset the cartridge maker. GRADO'S literature (describing their particularly sweet sounding new Laboratory cartridge--$49.50) is very interesting, as is AUDIO DYNAMICS' (explaining the starting ADC-1--also $49.50--which is the first cartridge to successfully track under 1 gram and still give exceptional sound...
...eartridges sound good; a shockingly larger number sound downright bad. One of the most reliable performers in the lower price range for magnetic pickups is the PICKERING 380--C. It has a smooth quality which many people prefer, and, at $29.95, it is a best buy. The afore-mentioned GRADO and ADC models are still better performers and exhibit astounding high precision in craftmanship...
...these two cartridges each offers particular advantages available nowhere else. The GRADO has the smoothest, sweetest sound around and tracks at moderately low pressures. The ADC-1 is possibly a shade less heavenly in sound but offers the lowest tracking pressures ever achieved--under 1 gram, which is generally agreed to be the point of vanishing record wear...