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Hello all,
I have a question, anyone know where I can get a decent cartridge and needle for my phonograph. I have a nice stack of records and would like to start listening to them. Music is one way I can really kick back and relax.
Thanks much,
ESDI
try guitar center....
Think you got the wrong board, lol??????
Mogh
I guess you already checked the internet search engines, which is all I know to do, don't know who is good though. I haven't had to replace my one phonograph needle on my one surviving turntable since the age of the CD!
I love old vinlys and records. I'm a bit of a vintage freak too. Try ebay or maybe you have to buy a new vinyl player. Who knows?
You could try a specialty music store, That deals with vinyl or you could try a place where DJs buy their equipment as I think most DJs still prefer music on vinyl.
Ask in the forum below.
AudioAsylum is a group of audiophiles that are as passionate about audio gear as MLHH members are about hair. I post as EdG in both forums.
For a cartridge, I recommend the Audio Technica AT440ML (about $100).
Ed
As someone who has lots of phonograph records, I would
suggest playing them once, to burn them onto CD. You are
aware that each time you play the phonograph record you cause
wear on it? I'd transfer the music to CD and then put the
phonograph record away in a safe place. It may well be a
collectors item in future years. But to listen to......do
it from Cds.
Also be forewarned the day will come when you
won't be able to get phonograph needles or phonograph
players.
I would be inclined to search what is available on Ebay assuming you are looking for a needle to play LP'S and 45's.
Also, many stores now sell Phonographs that will play LP'S, 45"S, 78'S, and CD's as well.............sometimes even Tapes. They are styled with an old look in mind.
Guess I myself am a bit strange, (but everybody knows that), but to my ears the greatest recordings (Classical) known have to be played on an Acoustic Phonograph. But I am not the only. The great Violinist Fritz Kreisler remarked that when electric took over the acoustic the Violin did not sound well. He disliked anything that had to come out of a speaker. His hearing was so accute that the US used him in WW1 to listen for bombs approaching. He could hear them and alert the troups way before anyone else heard anything. The acoustic sound, though limited to range is unlike anything else. I have oftened wondered if the course of recording technique could have been further improved upon when the "electrics" took over around 1927. The Victor Credenza Phonograph of 1925 is one of the most astounding internal horn machines to have ever been made. Completely ingenious! And before that Edison hit his landmark in 1912 when he came out with his Blue Amberol Cylinders. 1,000 playings of one of these cylinder records and the record isn't even worn out in the slighest. And they still play today as new!
The artist who has outsold everybody to this date was the great Tenor Caruso who died just prior to any electrical recordings. And, the most famous recording in the world is that of Brahms recorded in 1892. 32 seconds of hearing a bit of his voice before launching into one of his Hungarian Dances for the Piano. The record was made of wax.
www.acousticsounds.com - it's a one stop shop for everything vinyl and digital, including SACD and DVD-Audio. They even sell tube amps and high end record players.
Personally, I can't stand the sound of CDs compared to the two aforementioned formats.
Thanks everyone for the advice on my issue here. :-)
