Records to cd the easy way
 

In article , Serge Auckland
wrote:

Ceramic cartridges normally give out 100mV or thereabouts, and if fed
into a high impedance input (2M) are more or less self-equalising for
the RIAA characteristic. In the seventies when there were still a few
"hi-fi" ceramic pickups around (Decca Deram, Connoisseur, Sonotone etc)
a few amps tried to provide "proper" equalisation for ceramic
cartridges, but the need for higher compliances (especially vertical)
for stereo effectively killed off ceramic cartridges. That, and new
magnetic cartridges coming available relatively cheaply. I bought my
first magnetic (Audio Technica AT6 for £5 in 1967) - A lot of money
then for a student, but just about affordable.

My first magnetic cartridge was the AT3 :-)

In principle, people could have made higher compliance, lower output
'ceramic' cartridges. However the practical problems counted against this
at the time.

Slainte,

Jim

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