Word: phonographic
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There are not many things in this world about which it can be said that they are literally "worth their weight in gold." However, streo phonograph cartridges are among these few: in fact, according to some quick calculations, at least a couple of the best of them are selling for TWICE their weight in gold...
...quite the same way, no two speakers sound quite alike in the same system, and, no two cartridges respond in kind to the same record grooves. Making a good and faithful e-a transducer is as much an art as a science at the moment; making a good phonograph cartridge may well require the highest degree of that...
Speakers and microphones either convert air motion into electrical signal or electrical signal into air motion. A phonograph cartridge has the related but somewhat different task of converting wiggles in plastic into electrical signals approximating those originally made by the recoring engineer's mikes. While neither a speaker nor a microphone can harm the air it contacts in its attention to its duty, a cartridge can wreak havoc on its medium, the plastic of your records. Clearly, your choice of a cartridge will have a strong bearing on the satisfaction you receive from your home music system. The immediate factor...
...event, purchasing a phonograph cartridge is extremely similar to purchasing a horse--you can't judge by appearance, but you look for good characteristics and then try the thing out. With cartridges, look for a tracking pressure below 4 grams--higher will mean inordinately high record wear. Look for high compliance and low mean inordinately high record wear. Look for high compliance and low moving mass; study of specs sheets sheets will teach you what "high" and "low" are. But above all rely on your ears, as guided by those of your audio dealer, who, after all, does...
...gratitude, one movie actress gave him a Lincoln Continental convertible. Another lady, still tingling from his touch, gave him a stereo phonograph; still another thanked him with a complete set of expensive china. In Hollywood, where $1,000 gifts are exchanged as casually as husbands and wives, hairdressers are rarely so rewarded. But George Masters, hair stylist of Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, is more adored than all the cars, phonographs and dinnerware can tell. At 23, George of Beverly Hills is Hollywood's answer to Kenneth of Lilly Dache, the man that Jackie Kennedy made famous...