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...anything short of a sledge hammer will leave his needle firmly and serenely in the groove. "Firmly" isn't the right word here, though, since Bruce uses the new Audio Dynamics ADC-1 cartridge and tracks it (in his home-made professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram! The ADC-1 is one indication of how seriously Humphrey is concerned with the problem of record-wear and surface-noise. His care for records doesn't end with use of the world's lowest-pressure commercial cartridge. The familiar Dust Bug is very much present, as it is in just...
Margaret A. Gram '64 sings "A Christmas Prayer," a jazz number, and joins Kendra B. Stearns '64 in "I love you too, sweet earthbound teen lover," a combination answer-and-death song. President Jack M. Winter '62 solos in "The Great Namedropper," a baseball song. This Michael K. Frith '63 and Miss Stearns will each do recitations
...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...
...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...
...micromicrocurie is roughly equivalent to one-millionth of one-millionth of the radioactivity of one gram of radium...