On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:21:59 +0000, Ian Bell wrote:


Serge Auckland wrote:

My question is why Moving Coils should be thought to be better than moving
magnets. I can think of several reasons why they should be worse, lower
compliance and higher mass, but not why they should be better.
Trackability should be better on a MM, as should record wear due to lower
tracking weights.


I am surprised there has been so little development of cartridges beyond the
two basic magnetic types and good old ceramic. What about an optical
cartridge for example?

Are you talking about bouncing a laser off the record groove? It was a failu
it was too expensive and worked worse than traditional methods as it was best
at reading the crud in the groove instead of just pushing it aside.