The needle (or stylus) is attached to a phono cartridge and tone arm.
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Some turntables even allow you to swap out the phono cartridge as an upgrade.
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If you want a turntable with better audio quality, look for the best phono cartridge you can afford.
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One reason why this turntable is such a steal is because it ships with the Clearaudio Virtuoso phono cartridge, which has nearly a four-figure price point when sold separately.
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It ships with a Ortofon 2M blue phono cartridge (a midrange cartridge that has received positive reviews), plays records back at both 33⅓ and 45 rpm, and offers an RCA stereo line-out to connect to speakers.
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The preamp attached to the phono cartridge has a complementary filter boosting those low frequencies following the standard RIAA equalization curve.
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It is caused by imperfect bearings, uneven motor windings, vibrations in driving bands in some turntables, room vibrations (e.g., from traffic) that is transmitted by the turntable mounting and so to the phono cartridge. A lower number is better.
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After that Hollander was Director of the Endeveco Solid State Physics Laboratory, Los Altos, California. He then started his own company and was Sec.Tres.of Integrated Transducers Inc., headquartered in Guynabo, Puerto Rico, which produced his patented piezoresistance phono cartridge used in Motorola's high fidelity audio systems.
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Denon DL103 is a MC (moving coil) phono cartridge made by DENON company. The DL103 was designed for professional broadcast use in 1962 using the arms and turntables of the day. Production has continued uninterrupted since then. There are available different versions upgraded by other companies or individuals involved in DIY audio.
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Stax Ltd. was founded in 1938. Twenty-two years later, in 1960, Stax released their first electrostatic earspeaker, the Stax SR-1. Over the following thirty-six years Stax produced a variety of amplification, earspeaker, tonearm, CD player, DAC, phono cartridge and loudspeaker products. In 1995, fifty-seven years after the company’s foundation, it became insolvent.
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In 1989, Roksan introduced the Artaxerxes phono stage – a moving coil phono pre- amplifier designed to sit inside the turntable. Roksan also marketed a three- legged table dedicated to the deck. In 1987 Roksan launched the Shiraz moving coil phono cartridge. In 1989, Roksan launched the budget Radius record player, Tabriz arm and Corus moving magnet cartridge.
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An Audio Technica AT-F3 moving coil phono cartridge A magnetic cartridge, more commonly called a phonograph cartridge or phono cartridge or (colloquially) a pickup, is an electromechanical transducer that is used to play records on a turntable. The cartridge contains a removable or permanently mounted stylus, the tip - usually a gemstone, such as diamond or sapphire - of which makes physical contact with the record's groove. In popular usage and in disc jockey jargon, the stylus, and sometimes the entire cartridge, is often called the needle. As the stylus tracks the serrated groove, it vibrates a cantilever on which is mounted a permanent magnet which moves between the magnetic fields of sets of electromagnetic coils in the cartridge (or vice versa: the coils are mounted on the cantilever, and the magnets are in the cartridge).
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UD-4 is the process of modulating QMX onto a record with a process similar to CD-4, but also matrix encoded. A BMX decoder could be used to play back UD-4 recordings, but, by adding a special phono cartridge and a specialized UD-4 demodulator, two supplementary channels could be extracted and used to enhance directional resolution. UD-4 systems first encoded the four original channels into four new channels.
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Linn were distributors for Grace and Supex Corporation at the time, and thus the Grace G-707 tone arm and Supex SD900 and SD1000 phono cartridges were also frequently partners for the deck.Messenger, Paul (4 January 2004). "Linn Arkiv B phono cartridge" . Stereophile Early Linn-branded cartridges, such as the Asak and Asaka, and the 3-point mounted Troika (now discontinued, and replaced by the Krystal, which is built by Goldring), were produced by Supex for Linn.
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Apprentice engineers typically spend several years becoming expert in disc mastering. A mastering engineer may need to adjust and or compromise the sound quality of a record in order to maintain loudness and make the groove traceable by the stylus of a record player using a low-quality phono cartridge. Often, sounds have been mastered with additional compression, limiting, and equalization. In order to reduce wear on the master tape most discs are not sourced from the original master.
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619 Another interesting product was the Philco "Beam of Light" 78 RPM record players offered in 1941 and 1942. These units had a tiny mirror attached to the player's needle. A beam of light was focused on the mirror which caused a vibrating light to hit a solar cell and produce the audio signal. While this system had some advantages over the standard crystal phono cartridge of the time, it was unreliable and is today a very difficult unit to restore.
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Two of these new channels contained the original four channels, matrix encoded. The other two contained only band-limited localization information, and were encoded with high frequency carrier signals similar to the CD-4 system. The system suffered from incompatibility with regular stereo playback due to phase differences between the left and right channels. Phono cartridge set-up for UD-4 playback was less critical than in CD-4, because the high frequency carrier signals were not as high as those found in the CD-4 system.
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Shure began supplying replacement crystal pickups to various manufacturers in 1933 and by the mid-1940s Shure was the largest supplier of phonograph cartridges in America, supplying record manufacturers like Philco, RCA, Emerson, Magnavox, Admiral, and Motorola. At the peak of Shure's production the company was producing more than 28,000 cartridges per day, with 25,000 produced at Shure's Phoenix plant. While Shure continues to manufacture phono cartridges, the Phoenix facility was closed in the late 1980s due to declining demand. Shure engineers introduced several key phono cartridge design concepts.
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The V-15 Type II (introduced in 1966) was the first computer-designed phono cartridge and the first to feature a flip-action built-in stylus guard. The V-15 Type IV (introduced in 1978) was the first to feature the dynamic stabilizer, which discharged static electricity from the groove and stabilized the cartridge for playback of warped records. The V-15 Type V marked the introduction of a proprietary "ultra-thin wall beryllium" stylus shank with a stiffness-to-mass ratio several times that of other cartridges on the market. In 1998, Sony Music Entertainment selected the Shure V15VxMR to transcribe 80 years of Columbia Records and Sony Music masters and recordings.
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Stanton Magnetics was founded in 1946 by Norman C. Pickering as Pickering Associates, Inc., the parent corporation of Pickering & Company, with a focus on products for the professional broadcast and recording industries. Walter O. Stanton joined the company as vice president in charge of sales in 1948, helping the company develop the first cartridge for the new microgroove standard for vinyl records, and succeeded Pickering as president in 1950. In 1961, recognizing the growth of Pickering & Company's consumer market, Stanton established the Stanton Magnetics brand to focus on professional broadcast and recording products. Beginning with the first microgroove phono cartridge, then with the first user-replaceable stylus in 1954 and the first stereo cartridge in 1958, Stanton was well-positioned to meet the demands of the hi-fi market and the advent of the 33⅓ rpm Long Play (LP) microgroove vinyl recordWalter Stanton, 86, Audio Stylus Innovator NY Times April 21, 2001. Retrieved on November 16, 2017 In 1970, Stanton introduced the 500AL, a cartridge specifically designed to withstand the back-cueing technique of radio disc jockeys, which led to it becoming a popular cartridge choice for mixing and scratching by the growing number of hip hop and club DJs.
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